Spin 3/5 Black Hole in GRO J1655-40?

Details Spin 3/5 Black Hole in GRO J1655-40? Spin 3/5 Black Hole in GRO J1655-40?

1999-10-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9910335v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, submitted to ApJ

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When a bright spot in a high-inclination disk orbits a black hole, its light is periodically lensed and Doppler shifted. If the spots occupy a narrow range of radii, a quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) will result. I calculate the QPO frequency assuming that the spots appear near r_max - the radius of the maximal proper radiation flux from the disk. The calculated frequency depends on the black hole mass and spin. For the microquasar GRO J1655-40, the black hole mass is known and a 300 Hz QPO was observed. The inferred black hole spin is about 60% of the maximal. The orbit precession frequency at r_max is 20Hz, this QPO was also observed in GRO J1655-40. An approximate formula for r_max is given.

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