Testing general relativity with the stellar-mass black hole in LMC X-1 using the continuum-fitting method
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2020-07-07 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
The iron line and the continuum-fitting methods are currently the two leading techniques for measuring black hole spins with electromagnetic radiation. They can be naturally extended for probing the spacetime geometry around black holes and testing general relativity in the strong field regime. In the past couple of years, there has been significant work to use the iron line method to test the nature of black holes. In this Letter, we use the continuum-fitting method and we show its capability of constraining the spacetime geometry around black holes by analyzing 17 RXTE data of the X-ray binary LMC X-1.
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@article{arxiv.2001.08391,
title = {Testing general relativity with the stellar-mass black hole in LMC X-1 using the continuum-fitting method},
author = {Ashutosh Tripathi and Menglei Zhou and Askar B. Abdikamalov and Dimitry Ayzenberg and Cosimo Bambi and Lijun Gou and Victoria Grinberg and Honghui Liu and James F. Steiner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.08391},
year = {2020}
}
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7 pages, 3 figures. v2: refereed version