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No evidence for a low-mass black hole in Swift J1753.5-0127

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Date
01/12/2016
Author
Shaw, A. W.
Charles, P. A.
Casares, J.
Hernández Santisteban, J. V.
Keywords
Black hole physics
X-rays: binaries
X-rays: individual: Swift J1753.5-0127
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
DAS
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Abstract
We present high-resolution, time-resolved optical spectroscopy of the black hole X-ray transient Swift J1753.5-0127. Our optical spectra do not show features that we can associate with the companion star. However we do observe broad, double-peaked emission lines, typical of an accretion disc. We show that the mass of the compact object is likely >7.4 ± 1.2 M⊙, much higher than previous suggestions of a low-mass (<5 M⊙) black hole.
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Shaw , A W , Charles , P A , Casares , J & Hernández Santisteban , J V 2016 , ' No evidence for a low-mass black hole in Swift J1753.5-0127 ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 463 , no. 2 , pp. 1314-1322 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2092
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2092
ISSN
0035-8711
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2016 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2092
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URL
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.04969
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016MNRAS.463.1314S
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18493

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