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A moderate spin for the black hole in X-ray binary MAXI J1348-630 revealed by Insight-HXMT

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2023-05-10 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

MAXI J1348-630 is a low-mass X-ray black hole binary located in the Galaxy and undergone the X-ray outburst in 2019. We analyzed the observation data in very soft state during the outburst between MJD 58588 and MJD 58596 based on the Insight-HXMT observations from 2 -- 20 keV via the continuum fitting method to measure the spin of the stellar-mass black hole in MAXI J1348-630. The inner disk temperature and the apparent inner disk radius were found to be 0.47±0.01keV0.47\pm 0.01 \rm keV and 5.33±0.10 Rg5.33\pm 0.10 \ R_{g} from the observation data modeled by the multicolor disc blackbody model. Assuming the distance of the source D3.4kpcD\sim 3.4 \rm kpc, the mass of the black hole M11 MM\sim 11 \ M_{\odot}, and the inclination of the system i29.2i\sim 29.2^{\circ}, the spin is determined to be a=0.41±0.03a_{\star}=0.41\pm 0.03 for fixing hardening factor at 1.6 and nH=8.6×1021cm2n_{H}=8.6\times 10^{21} \rm cm^{-2}. Besides, considering the uncertainty of the parameters D,M,iD, M, i of this system, with the Monte Carlo analysis, we still confirm the moderate spin of the black hole as a=0.420.50+0.13a_{\star}=0.42^{+0.13}_{-0.50}. Some spectral parameters (e.g., column density and hardening factor) which could affect the measurements of the BH spin are also briefly discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2304.13285,
  title  = {A moderate spin for the black hole in X-ray binary MAXI J1348-630 revealed by Insight-HXMT},
  author = {Hanji Wu and Wei Wang and Na Sai and Haifan Zhu and Jiashi Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.13285},
  year   = {2023}
}

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10 pages, 14 figures, 5 tables, accept for publication in MNRAS