2013

Mass Measurements of Stellar and Intermediate Mass Black-Holes

Casares, J., Jonker, P. G.

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We discuss the method, and potential systematic effects therein, used for measuring the mass of stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries.

We restrict our discussion to the method that relies on the validity of Kepler's laws; we refer to this method as the dynamical method.
We briefly discuss the implications of the mass distribution of stellar-mass black holes and provide an outlook for future measurements.
Further, we investigate the evidence for the existence of intermediate-mass black holes i.e.

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