Dynamical evidence for a black hole in the X-ray transient QZ VUL (=GS 2000+25)

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Nov 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995mnras.277l..45c&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 277, Issue 2, pp. L45-L50.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Accretion, Accretion Discs, Binaries: Close, Binaries: Spectroscopic, X-Rays: Stars

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We report the first spectroscopic detection of the secondary star in the X-ray transient QZ Vul (=GS 2000+25). Cross-correlation of individual spectra against K-type templates yields clear velocity modulations with the 8.3-h orbital period. From the amplitude of the radial velocity curve (520+/-16 km s^-1) we derive a mass function f(M)=5.02+/-0.46 M_solar, the second largest after that of V404 Cygni. We classify the companion star as a K5+/-2V which is the dominant light source in our spectral range (lambdalambda6000-8800). Doppler imaging of the broad Hα emission shows evidence for an intense hotspot from which we estimate an accretion disc radius of (0.47+/-0.03)R_Lx.

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