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astro-ph2007★ 19 cited
Estimating the Spins of Stellar-Mass Black Holes by Fitting Their Continuum Spectra
Ramesh Narayan, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Rebecca Shafee
We have used the Novikov-Thorne thin disk model to fit the continuum X-ray spectra of three transient black hole X-ray binaries in the thermal state. From the fits we estimate the…
astro-ph2007★ 14 cited
Estimating the Spins of Stellar-Mass Black Holes
Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ramesh Narayan, Rebecca Shafee
We describe a program that we have embarked on to estimate the spins of stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries. We fit the continuum X-ray spectrum of the radiation from the ac…