We study the spectral and temporal properties of the black hole X-ray transient binary SLX 1746--331 during the 2023 outburst with NICER, NuSTAR, and Insight-HXMT observations. Through the joint fitting of the spectra from NICER, NuSTAR, and Insight-HXMT, the spin and inclination angles are measured for the first time as 0.85±0.03 and 53±0.5\textdegree, respectively. Accordingly, the mass of the compact star is updated from the previous lower limit of 3.3±2.1M⊙ to 5.5±3.6M⊙, which is consistent with 5.2±4.5M⊙ measured with an empirical mass-luminosity correlation of BH samples. With more NICER observations covering the later decay of the outburst, we confirm that the entire outburst was dominated by the disk emissions, and the thermal spectrum follows F∝Tin3.974±0.003, till a luminosity of over than two magnitudes lower than the maximum of the outburst.
@article{arxiv.2503.01230,
title = {NICER, NuSTAR and Insight-HXMT views to black hole X-ray binary SLX 1746--331},
author = {Jing-Qiang Peng and Shu Zhang and Qing-Cang Shui and Shuang-Nan Zhang and Ling-Da Kong and Yu-Peng Chen and Peng-Ju Wang and Long Ji and Jin-Lu Qu and Lian Tao and Ming-Yu Ge and Zhi Chang and Jian Li and Zhao-sheng Li and Zhuo-Li Yu and Zhe Yan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.01230},
year = {2025}
}
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10 pages,5 figures, 2 tables. Published in ApJ Letters