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±0.01keV and 5.33±0.10Rg from the observation data modeled by the multicolor disc blackbody model. Assuming the distance of the source D∼3.4kpc, the mass of the black hole M∼11M⊙, and the inclination of the system i∼29.2∘, the spin is determined to be a⋆=0.41±0.03 for fixing hardening factor at 1.6 and nH=8.6×1021cm−2. Besides, considering the uncertainty of the parameters D,M,i of this system, with the Monte Carlo analysis, we still confirm the moderate spin of the black hole as a⋆=0.42−0.50+0.13. Some spectral parameters (e.g., column density and hardening factor) which could affect the measurements of the BH spin are also briefly discussed.
@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}
}
Comments
10 pages, 14 figures, 5 tables, accept for publication in MNRAS