Astronomy:XTE J1550–564

From HandWiki
Short description: Star in the constellation Norma
XTE J1550-564
V381NorLightCurve.png
The visual band light curve of a flare on V381 Normae, adapted from Poutanen et al. (2014)[1]
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Norma
Right ascension  15h 50m 58.78s[2]
Declination −56° 28′ 35.0″[2]
Apparent magnitude (V) 16.6
Other designations
V381 Normae[2]
Database references
SIMBADdata

XTE J1550-564, sometimes abbreviated to J1550 and also known as V381 Normae, is a low-mass X-ray binary in the constellation Norma. It is composed of a black hole around 10 times as massive as the Sun,[3] and a star of spectral type K3III. The black hole fires out jets of matter that are thought to arise from an accretion disk, and is hence known as a microquasar.[3]

References

  1. Poutanen, Juri; Veledina, Alexandra; Revnivtsev, Mikhail G. (December 2014). "Colours of black holes: infrared flares from the hot accretion disc in XTE J1550–564". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 445 (4): 3987–3998. doi:10.1093/mnras/stu1989. Bibcode2014MNRAS.445.3987P. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.445.3987P. Retrieved 3 February 2022. 
  2. Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 2.2 "V* V381 Nor". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=V%2A+V381+Nor. 
  3. Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 Steiner, James F.; Reis, Rubens C.; McClintock, Jeffrey E.; Narayan, Ramesh; Remillard, Ronald A.; Orosz, Jerome A.; Gou, Lijun; Fabian, Andrew C. et al. (2011). "The spin of the black hole microquasar XTE J1550-564 via the continuum-fitting and Fe-line methods". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 416 (2): 941–58. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19089.x. Bibcode2011MNRAS.416..941S.