Probing black hole X-ray binaries with the Keck telescopes
Astrophysics
2015-06-24 v1
Abstract
The advent of the large effective apertures of the Keck telescopes has resulted in the determination with unprecedented accuracy of the mass functions and mass ratios of faint (R ~ 21 mag) X-ray transients (GS 2000+25, GRO J0422+32, Nova Oph 1977, Nova Vel 1993), as well as constraining the main-sequence companion star parameters and producing images of the accretion disks around the black holes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0002332,
title = {Probing black hole X-ray binaries with the Keck telescopes},
author = {Emilios T. Harlaftis and Alexei V. Filippenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0002332},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 figures, SPIE Symposium 4005, in press