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Mass Measurements of Stellar and Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Part of book or chapter of book , Article , Preprint , Other literature type 01 Jan 2013Embargo end date: 01 Jan 2013 Netherlands Publisher:Springer New YorkJournal:Space Science Reviews, volume 183, pages 223-252 (issn: 0038-6308, eissn: 1572-9672,

Authors: Jorge Casares; Jorge Casares; Peter G. Jonker; Peter G. Jonker; Peter G. Jonker;

doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2227-7_12 , 10.1007/s11214-013-0030-6 , 10.48550/arxiv.1311.5118

arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.5118

handle: https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/122696 , https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/132494 , 2066/122696 , 2066/132494

Mass Measurements of Stellar and Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

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Abstract

We discuss the method, and potential systematic effects therein, used for measuring the mass of stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries. We restrict our discussion to the method that relies on the validity of Kepler's laws; we refer to this method as the dynamical method. We briefly discuss the implications of the mass distribution of stellar-mass black holes and provide an outlook for future measurements. Further, we investigate the evidence for the existence of intermediate-mass black holes i.e. black holes with masses above 100 Msun, the limit to the black hole mass that can be produced by stellar evolution in the current Universe.

28 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in Space Science Reviews (DOI 10.1007/s11214-013-0030-6). Also to appear in hard cover in the Space Sciences Series of ISSI "The Physics of Accretion onto Black Holes" (Springer Publisher). Replaced with a new version including a new Fig.1, fixed two references, some typos and minor style changes

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Netherlands

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Spanish National Research Council
Spain
Harvard University
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Radboud University Nijmegen
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Dutch Research Council
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Keywords

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Astronomy, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies

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