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The Spin of the Black Hole Microquasar XTE J1550-564 via the Continuum-Fitting and Fe-Line Methods
James F. Steiner, Rubens C. Reis, Jeffrey E. McClintock +6
We measure the spin of XTE J1550-564 in two ways: by modelling the thermal continuum spectrum of the accretion disc, and independently by modeling the broad red wing of the reflect…
The Constant Inner-Disk Radius of LMC X-3: A Basis for Measuring Black Hole Spin
James F. Steiner, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ronald A. Remillard +3
The black-hole binary system LMC X-3 has been observed by virtually every X-ray mission since the inception of X-ray astronomy. Among the persistent sources, LMC X-3 is uniquely bo…
Simulations of Magnetized Disks Around Black Holes: Effects of Black Hole Spin, Disk Thickness, and Magnetic Field Geometry
Robert F. Penna, Jonathan C. McKinney, Ramesh Narayan +3
The standard general relativistic model of a razor-thin accretion disk around a black hole, developed by Novikov & Thorne (NT) in 1973, assumes the shear stress vanishes at the rad…
The Spin of the Black Hole in the Soft X-ray Transient A0620--00
Lijun Gou, Jeffrey E. McClintock, James F. Steiner +4
During its yearlong outburst in 1975--76, the transient source A0620--00 reached an intensity of 50 Crab, an all-time record for any X-ray binary. The source has been quiescent sin…
Numerical Studies of Relativistic Jets
Ramesh Narayan, Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Jonathan C. McKinney
The connection between collimation and acceleration of magnetized relativistic jets is discussed. The focus is on recent numerical simulations which shed light on some longstanding…