We present a new and exploratory method to estimate the distance of microquasars by suggesting an empirical correlation between the bluemost point of the bisector of the cross-correlation function and the absolute magnitude.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0609608,
title = {Bisectors as Distance Estimators for Microquasars?},
author = {C. Foellmi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0609608},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
2 pages, no figures, to appear in proc. of "Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics", Aveiro, Sep. 2006, eds N. Santos et al