Infrared spectroscopy of V404 Cygni: limits on the accretion disc contamination

Bibcode
1996MNRAS.282..977S
Shahbaz, T.; Bandyopadhyay, R.; Charles, P. A.; Naylor, T.
Bibliographical reference

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 282, Issue 3, pp. 977-981.

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1996
Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Number of authors
4
IAC number of authors
0
Citations
44
Refereed citations
34
Description
We have obtained for the first time 2.10-2.45 μm infrared spectra of the soft-X-ray transient V404 Cygni. We determine a 95 per cent confidence upper limit to the fraction of light arising from the accretion disc of 14 per cent. The effect this has on the mass of the compact object, determined from modelling the infrared ellipsoidal variations, is to reduce its mass to at most 10 M_solar.
Type
Refereed
Accretion
Black hole physics

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