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Nov 25, 2011

Long-term monitoring of the black hole binary GX 339-4 in the high/soft state during the 2010 outburst with MAXI/GSC

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
  • Megumi Shidatsu
  • Yoshihiro Ueda
  • Satoshi Nakahira
  • Hitoshi Negoro
  • Kazutaka Yamaoka
  • Mutsumi Sugizaki
  • Kazuo Hiroi
  • Nobuyuki Kawai
  • Tatehiro Mihara
  • Masaru Matsuoka
  • Masashi Kimura
  • Masaki Ishikawa
  • Naoki Isobe
  • Hiroki Kitayama
  • Mitsuhiro Kohama
  • Takanori Matsumura
  • Mikio Morii
  • Yujin E. Nakagawa
  • Motoki Nakajima
  • Motoko Serino
  • Tetsuya Sootome
  • Kousuke Sugimori
  • Fumitoshi Suwa
  • Takahiro Toizumi
  • Hiroshi Tomida
  • Yohko Tsuboi
  • Hiroshi Tsunemi
  • Shiro Ueno
  • Ryuichi Usui
  • Takayuki Yamamoto
  • Kyohei Yamazaki
  • Atsumasa Yoshida
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Volume
63
Number
SPEC. ISSUE 3
First page
803
Last page
811
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1093/pasj/63.sp3.S803

We present the results of monitoring the galactic black hole candidate GX 3394 with the Monitor of Allsky X-ray Image (MAXI) /Gas Slit Camera in the high/soft state during an outburst in 2010. All of the spectra throughout the 8-month period were well reproduced with a model consisting of multi-color disk emission and its Comptonization component, whose fraction is ≤25% in the total flux. In spite of the flux variability over a factor of 3, the innermost disk radius is constant at Rin = 61±2 km for an inclination angle of i = 46° and a distance of d = 8 kpc. This Rin value is consistent with those of past measurementswith Tenma in the high/soft state. Assuming that the disk extends to the innermost stable circular orbit of a non-spinning black hole, we estimate the black hole mass to be M = 6.8±0.2M for i = 46° and d = 8 kpc, which is consistent with that estimated from the Suzaku observation of the previous low/hard state. Further combined with the mass function, we obtained a mass constraint of 4.3M⊙ <M < 13.3M⊙ for the allowed range of d = 6-15 kpc and i < 60°. We also discuss the spin parameter of the black hole in GX 339-4 by applying relativistic accretion disk models to the Swift/XRT data. © 2011. Astronomical Society of Japan.

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  • DOI : 10.1093/pasj/63.sp3.S803
  • ISSN : 0004-6264
  • SCOPUS ID : 82555169418

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