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Measuring the Spins of Stellar Black Holes: A Progress Report
(American Institute of Physics, 2010)We use the Novikov-Thorne thin disk model to fit the thermal continuum X-ray spectra of black hole X-ray binaries, and thereby extract the dimensionless spin parameter a∗=a/M of the black hole as a parameter of the fit. ...