The Optical and Ultraviolet Spectral Energy Distributions of Short Period Black Hole X-ray Transients in Outburst

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2004-12-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0412531v1

Astrophys.J. 623 (2005) 1026-1043

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. 20 pages using emulateapj.cls

Scientific paper

10.1086/428445

We compile optical and UV spectra of a sample of 'typical' short period black hole X-ray transients in outburst. We also survey determinations of interstellar extinction and distance in order to deredden spectra and compare absolute fluxes. Hence we perform a comparative study of the broad-band spectral energy distributions (SED). We find that given such a homogeneous sample of typical sources, the optical SEDs form a relatively uniform set, all exhibiting quasi-power-law spectra with Fnu proportional to nu^alpha, where 0.5

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