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Confirming the spin parameter of the black hole in Cygnus X-1 using the Insight-HXMT
Journal of High Energy Astrophysics ( IF 10.2 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-04 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jheap.2020.03.001
Xue-Shan Zhao , Yan-Ting Dong , Li-Jun Gou , Ye Feng , Nan Jia , Yu-Feng Li , Zhen-Xuan Liao , Ji-Ren Liu , Xue-Ying Zheng , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Jin-Lu Qu , Li-Ming Song , Shu Zhang , Qing-Cui Bu , Ce Cai , Xue-Lei Cao , Zhi Chang , Gang Chen , Li Chen , Tian-Xiang Chen , Yi-Bao Chen , Yong Chen , Yu-Peng Chen , Wei Cui , Wei-Wei Cui , Jing-Kang Deng , Yong-Wei Dong , Yuan-Yuan Du , Min-Xue Fu , Guan-Hua Gao , He Gao , Min Gao , Ming-Yu Ge , Yu-Dong Gu , Ju Guan , Cheng-Cheng Guo , Da-Wei Han , Yue Huang , Jia Huo , Shu-Mei Jia , Lu-Hua Jiang , Wei-Chun Jiang , Jing Jin , Yong-Jie Jin , Ling-Da Kong , Bing Li , Cheng-Kui Li , Gang Li , Mao-Shun Li , Ti-Pei Li , Wei Li , Xian Li , Xiao-Bo Li , Xu-Fang Li , Yan-Guo Li , Zheng-Wei Li , Xiao-Hua Liang , Jin-Yuan Liao , Bai-Sheng Liu , Cong-Zhan Liu , Guo-Qing Liu , He-Xin Liu , Hong-Wei Liu , Xiao-Jing Liu , Yi-Nong Liu , Bo Lu , Fang-Jun Lu , Xue-Feng Lu , Qi Luo , Tao Luo , Xiang Ma , Bin Meng , Yi Nang , Jian-Yin Nie , Ge Ou , Na Sai , Ren-Cheng Shang , Xin-Ying Song , Liang Sun , Ying Tan , Lian Tao , You-Li Tuo , Chen Wang , Guo-Feng Wang , Juan Wang , Wen-Shuai Wang , Yu-Sa Wang , Xiang-Yang Wen , Bai-Yang Wu , Bo-Bing Wu , Mei Wu , Guang-Cheng Xiao , Shuo Xiao , Shao-Lin Xiong , Yu-Peng Xu , Jia-Wei Yang , Sheng Yang , Yan-Ji Yang , Yi-Rong Yang , Qi-Bin Yi , Qian-Qing Yin , Yuan You , Ai-Mei Zhang , Cheng-Mo Zhang , Fan Zhang , Hong-Mei Zhang , Juan Zhang , Tong Zhang , Wan-Chang Zhang , Wei Zhang , Wen-Zhao Zhang , Yi Zhang , Yi-Fei Zhang , Yong-Jie Zhang , Yue Zhang , Zhao Zhang , Zhi Zhang , Zi-Liang Zhang , Hai-Sheng Zhao , Xiao-Fan Zhao , Shi-Jie Zheng , Deng-Ke Zhou , Jian-Feng Zhou , Yu-Xuan Zhu , Yue-Zhu , Ren-Lin Zhuang

Recently, the system parameters of Cygnus X-1, i.e., the black hole mass M, the orbital inclination i and the source distance D, have been updated. As the input constraints of the continuum-fitting method, it is necessary to refine the spin with these new parameters. The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT, also named Insight) was successfully launched on June 15th, 2017 in China. In this work, we analyzed spectra obtained by the Insight-HXMT during 2017-2018 and re-estimated the spin via the continuum-fitting method. We first re-estimated the spin using old parameters and found the dimensionless spin parameter to be a>0.934 (3σ), which is consistent with previous measurements both from the continuum-fitting and iron-line fitting methods (Gou et al. 2011, Gou et al. 2014; Fabian et al. 2012, Walton et al. 2016, Tomsick et al. 2018). Then, when the new parameters were applied, we obtained an increased spin: a>0.967 (3σ), which is also consistent with the recent measurement (Zhao et al. 2020, submitted to ApJ) and also confirms an extreme Kerr black hole lying in this system.

更新日期:2020-05-04
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