NICER, NuSTAR and Insight-HXMT views to black hole X-ray binary SLX 1746--331

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Title: NICER, NuSTAR and Insight-HXMT views to black hole X-ray binary SLX 1746--331
Authors: Peng, Jing-Qiang, Zhang, Shu, Shui, Qing-Cang, Zhang, Shuang-Nan, Kong, Ling-Da, Chen, Yu-Peng, Wang, Peng-Ju, Ji, Long, Qu, Jin-Lu, Tao, Lian, Ge, Ming-Yu, Chang, Zhi, Li, Jian, Li, Zhao-sheng, Yu, Zhuo-Li, Yan, Zhe
Source: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 965, Issue 2, id.L22, 7 pp. 2024
Publication Year: 2025
Collection: Astrophysics
Subject Terms: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
More Details: We study the spectral and temporal properties of the black hole X-ray transient binary SLX 1746--331 during the 2023 outburst with NICER, NuSTAR, and Insight-HXMT observations. Through the joint fitting of the spectra from NICER, NuSTAR, and Insight-HXMT, the spin and inclination angles are measured for the first time as $0.85 \pm 0.03$ and $53\pm 0.5$\textdegree, respectively. Accordingly, the mass of the compact star is updated from the previous lower limit of 3.3$\pm 2.1 M_\odot$ to $5.5\pm 3.6 M_\odot$, which is consistent with $5.2 \pm 4.5M_\odot$ measured with an empirical mass-luminosity correlation of BH samples. With more NICER observations covering the later decay of the outburst, we confirm that the entire outburst was dominated by the disk emissions, and the thermal spectrum follows $F \propto T_{\rm in}^{3.974\pm 0.003}$, till a luminosity of over than two magnitudes lower than the maximum of the outburst.
Comment: 10 pages,5 figures, 2 tables. Published in ApJ Letters
Document Type: Working Paper
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad3640
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01230
Accession Number: edsarx.2503.01230
Database: arXiv
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DOI:10.3847/2041-8213/ad3640