Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-08-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
3 pages (LaTeX + 1 ps figure) to appear in the procceedings of the 13th NAW on CVs, Jackson Hole, WY, eds: S. Howell, E. Kuulk
Scientific paper
Recently, Narayan, Garcia and McClintock showed that there is a difference in the quiescent luminosities of black hole and neutron star x-ray nova: when the quiescent, Eddington scaled luminosities are compared, every black hole x-ray nova (BHXN) is fainter than every the neutron star x-ray nova (NSXN). To this earlier work we add three more BHXN, GRO J1655-40, GRO J0422+32, and 4U1543-47. This increases the significance of the difference between the quiescent luminosities to the >99% level. Given the reasonable assumption that the (Eddington scaled) mass transfer swings in BHXN and NSXN are similar, this difference provides direct evidence for the existence of event horizons in the BHXN: they have larger luminosity swings because the quiescent mass transfer energy is being hidden behind the event horizon.
Callanan Paul J.
Garcia Murillo R.
McClintock Jeff E.
Narayan Ramesh
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