The X-ray spectral evolution of galactic black hole X-ray binaries toward quiescence

Most transient black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) spend the bulk of their time in a quiescent state, where they accrete matter from their companion star at highly sub-Eddington luminosities (we define quiescence here as a normalized Eddington ratio lx = L 0.5-10 keV/L Edd < 10-5). Here, we pre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Plotkin, Richard, Gallo, E., Jonker, P.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52184