Estimating the Spin of Stellar-Mass Black Holes by Spectral Fitting of the X-Ray Continuum
The Astrophysical Journal2005Vol. 636(2), pp. L113–L116
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Rebecca Shafee, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ramesh Narayan, Shane W. Davis, Li‐Xin Li, Ronald A. Remillard
Abstract
We fit X-ray spectral data in the thermal-dominant, or high-soft, state of two dynamically confirmed black holes, GRO J1655-40 and 4U 1543-47, and estimate the dimensionless spin parameters a* a/M of the two holes. For GRO J1655-40, using a spectral hardening factor computed for a non-LTE relativistic accretion disk, we estimate a*similar to 0.75 and a*similar to 0.65-0.75, respectively, from ASCA and RXTE data. For 4U 1543-47, we estimate a*similar to 0.75-0.85 from RXTE data. Thus, neither black hole has a spin approaching the theoretical maximum a* = 1.
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