NOAO > Observing Info > Approved Programs > 2013A-0381
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PI: Mark Reynolds, University of Michigan, markrey@umich.edu
Address: Dept. of Astronomy, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
CoI: Paul Callanan, University College Cork, Ireland
CoI: Dan Hurley, University College Cork, Ireland
CoI: Jon Miller, University of Michigan
CoI: Rubens Reis, University of Michigan
Title: The Mass of the Black Hole in the Galactic Microquasar GRS 1915+105
Abstract:
Probing General Relativity in the strong field regime and
understanding the production of relativistic jets are two critical
issues in the study of accreting blacks holes across the mass scale. In
both of these areas the Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105 occupies a
unique place in our effort to address these questions: in addition, it
is nominally the most massive of all known stellar-mass Galactic black
holes. However, a re-analysis of archival VLT data shows that this mass
estimate is likely subject to significant systematic uncertainty. We
propose new observations, which will lead to a reliable mass estimate
for the black hole in this system.
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