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The spin measurement of MAXI J1348-630 using the Insight-HXMT data

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2023-10-30 v3

Abstract

We report the results of fitting Insight-HXMT data to the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1348-430, which was discovered on January 26th, 2019, with the Gas Slit Camera (GSC) on-board MAXI. Several observations at the beginning of the first burst were selected, with a total of 10 spectra. From the residuals of fits using disk plus power law models, X-ray reflection signatures were clearly visible in some of these observations. We use the state-of the-art relxill series reflection model to fit six spectra with distinct reflection signatures and a joint fit to these spectra. In particular, we focus on the results for the black hole spin values. Assuming Rin = RISCO, the spin parameter is constrained to be 0.82+0.04-0.03 with 90% confidence level (statistical only).

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@article{arxiv.2309.05232,
  title  = {The spin measurement of MAXI J1348-630 using the Insight-HXMT data},
  author = {Yujia Song and Nan Jia and Jun Yang and Ye Feng and Lijun Gou and Tianhua Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05232},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Accepted for publication in MNRAS