Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-06-16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, 3 figures, The paper is accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/312194
We offer a brief description of the bulk-motion Comptonization (BMC) model for accretion onto black holes, illustrated by its application to observational data for LMC X-1, and Nova Muscae 1991. We then extract some physical parameters of these systems from observables (within the context of the BMC model}, drawing from results on GRO J1655-40, for which we presented extensive analysis previously. We derive estimates of the mass, (16 +/- 1) solar masses and mass accretion rate in the disk in Eddington units around 2 for LMC X-1, and (24 +/- 1)d_{5.5} and the disk mass acretion rate around 3 for Nova Muscae 1991 [where d_{5.5} stands for the distance in 5.5 kpc units]. Differences between these estimates and previous estimates based on dynamical studies are discussed. It is further shown that the disk inner radius increases with the high-to-low state transition in Nova Muscae 1991. Specifically, our analysis suggests that the inner-disk radius increases to 17 Scwarzschild radii as the transition to the low-hard state occurs.
Shrader Chris
Titarchuk Lev
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