Mass Measurements of Stellar and Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
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Mass Measurements of Stellar and Intermediate-Mass Black-Holes
We discuss the method, and potential systematic effects therein, used for measuring the mass of stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries. We restrict our discussion to the method that relies on the validity of Kepler’s laws; we refer to this method as the dynamical method. We briefly discuss the implications of the mass distribution of stellar-mass black holes and provide an outlook for futur...
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عنوان ژورنال: Space Science Reviews
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0038-6308,1572-9672
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-013-0030-6