On Black Hole Mass Estimation from X-Ray Spectra of Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources
On Black Hole Mass Estimation from X-Ray Spectra of Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources
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DOI:
10.1093/pasj/60.3.653
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发表时间:
2007-12
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
K. Vierdayanti;K. Watarai;S. Mineshige
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作者:
K. Vierdayanti;K. Watarai;S. Mineshige
We propose a methodology to derive a black-hole mass for super-critical accretion flow. Here, we use the extended disk blackbody (extended DBB) model, a fitting model in which the effective temperature profile obeys the relationTeff /rp ,w ithr being the disk radius andp being treated as a fitting parameter. We first numerically calcu- late the theoretical flow structure and its spectra for a given black-hole mass, M ,a nd accretion rate, P M.T hr ough fitting to the theoretical spectra by the extended DBB model, we can estimate the black-hole mass, Mx ,a ssuming that the innermost disk radius isrin =3rg./Mx/ ,w hererg is the Schwarzschild radius. We find, however, that the estimated mass deviates from that adopted in the spectral calculations,M ,e ven for low-P M cases. We also find that the deviations can be eliminated by introducing a new correction for the innermost radius. Using this correction, we calculate mass correction factors, M=Mx ,i n the super-critical regimes for some sets ofM and P M ,fi nding that am ass correction factor ranges between M=Mx � 1.2-1.6. The higher is P M ,t he largerdoes the mass correction factor tend to be. Since the correction is relatively small, we can safely conclude that the black holes in ULXs, which Vierdayanti et al. (2006, PASJ, 58, 915) analyzed, are stellar-mass black holes with the mass being<100Mˇ.