Thermal emission from the stellar-mass black hole binary XTE J1118+480 in the low/hard state

Reis, R. C.; Miller, J. M.; Fabian, A. C.

2009-05-01

Citation: Reis, R. C.; Miller, J. M.; Fabian, A. C. (2009). "Thermal emission from the stellar-mass black hole binary XTE J1118+480 in the low/hard state." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 395(1): L52-L56. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/65386>

Abstract: We report on the detection of a thermal disc component from the stellar-mass black hole binary XTE J1118+480 in the canonical low/hard state. The presence of a thermal component with a temperature of approximately 0.21 keV in the Chandra spectra of XTE J1118+480 is found at more than the 14Σ confidence level. Based on this evidence, we argue that the accretion disc in XTE J1118+480 is not truncated far from the central black hole in contrast with previous claims.

ISSN: 1745-3925, 1745-3933

DOIs: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2009.00640.x

Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/65386

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