Hard-state Accretion Disk Winds from Black Holes

Visibility of the cold wind as a function of the X-ray luminosity and colour. Hardness intensity diagram of MAXI J1820+070 using 1-day averaged X-ray fluxes from the MAXI instrument (black dots).
Visibility of the cold wind as a function of the X-ray luminosity and colour. Hardness intensity diagram of MAXI J1820+070 using 1-day averaged X-ray fluxes from the MAXI instrument (black dots).
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Authors
F. Jiménez-Ibarra
Universidad de La Laguna
G. Panizo-Espinar
Universidad de La Laguna
D. Mata Sánchez
Jodrell Bank
G. Ponti
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
R. P. Fender
University of Oxford, Department of Physics
D. A. H. Buckley
South African Astronomical Observatory
P. Garnavich
University of Notre Dame
P. A. Charles
University of Southampton
J. M. Corral-Santana
European Southern Observatory
J. J. E. Kajava
University of Turku
E. J. Kotze
South African Astronomical Observatory
C. Littlefield
University of Notre Dame
J. Sánchez-Sierras
Universidad de La Laguna
D. Steeghs
University of Warwick
J. Thomas
South African Astronomical Observatory
References
2019 ApJ 879 L4
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Stellar & Interstellar Physics (FEEI)

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