The Mass of the Compact Object in the X-ray Binary 4U 1700-37

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Aug 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004arep...48..649a&link_type=abstract

Astronomy Reports, vol. 48, Issue 8, p.649-658

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The results of a systematic analysis of master radial-velocity curves for the X-ray binary 4U 1700-37 are presented. The dependence of the mass of the X-ray component on the mass of the optical component is derived in a Roche model based on a fit of the master radial-velocity curve. The parameters of the optical star are used to estimate the mass of the compact object in three ways. The masses derived based on information about the surface gravity of the optical companion and various observational data are 2.25 -0.24 +0.23 M &sun; and 2.14 -0.56 +0.50 M &sun;. The masses based on the radius of the optical star, 21.9R &sun;, are 1.76 -0.21 +0.20 M &sun; and 1.65 -0.56 +0.78 M &sun;. The mass of the optical component derived from the mass-luminosity relation for X-ray binaries, 27.4M &sun;, yields masses for the compact object of 1.41 -0.08 + M &sun; and 1.35 -0.18 +0.18 M &sun;.

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