The face-on disc of MAXI J1836-194

We present Very Large Telescope optical spectra of the black hole candidate X-ray binary MAXI J1836−194 at the onset of its 2011 outburst. Although the spectrum was taken at the beginning of the outburst and contains a significant contribution from the optically thin synchrotron emission that origin...

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Main Authors: Russell, Thomas, Soria, Roberto, Motch, C., Pakull, M., Torres, M., Curran, Peter, Jonker, P., Miller-Jones, James
Format: Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36703