Bibcode
Corral-Santana, J. M.; Casares, J.; Shahbaz, T.; Zurita, C.; Martínez-Pais, I. G.; Rodríguez-Gil, P.
Referencia bibliográfica
Fourth Science Meeting with the GTC (Eds. C. Muñoz-Tuñón & J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 42, pp. 3-4 (2013) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)
Fecha de publicación:
5
2013
Número de citas
4
Número de citas referidas
3
Descripción
We present the results of the analysis of the first black hole confirmed
with GTC in the X-ray binary system XTE J1859+226. By combining optical
photometry taken with the INT, WHT and NOT with long-slit spectroscopy
with OSIRIS+GTC, we have obtained an orbital period of 6.58 h, a
secondary star radial velocity amplitude of K_2=541±70 km s^-1
and an upper limit to the inclination of 70°, implying a black hole
mass of at least 5.4 M⊙.