Eccentricity of HLX-1
We compare the outer radius of the accretion disc in the intermediate-mass black hole candidate HLX-1 as estimated from the ultraviolet/optical continuum, with the values estimated from its outburst decline time-scales. We fit the Swift 2010 outburst decline light curve with an exponential decay, a...
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Oxford University Press
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22704 |