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Measuring the Spins of Stellar Black Holes: A Progress Report
J. E. McClintock, R. Narayan, L. Gou +3
We use the Novikov-Thorne thin disk model to fit the thermal continuum X-ray spectra of black hole X-ray binaries, and thereby extract the dimensionless spin parameter a* = a/M of…
Measuring Black Hole Spin via the X-ray Continuum Fitting Method: Beyond the Thermal Dominant State
James F. Steiner, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ronald A. Remillard +2
All prior work on measuring the spins of stellar-mass black holes via the X-ray continuum-fitting method has relied on the use of weakly-Comptonized spectra obtained in the thermal…
A Determination of the Spin of the Black Hole Primary in LMC X-1
Lijun Gou, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Jifeng Liu +7
The first extragalactic X-ray binary, LMC X-1, was discovered in 1969. In the 1980s, its compact primary was established as the fourth dynamical black-hole candidate. Recently, we…