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By:Shane W. Davis
Published on 2006 by ProQuest

We have used these methods to construct a spectral fitting model (BHSPEC) for direct comparison with observations. We argue that existing data warrant spectral modeling which both accounts for relativistic effects, and treats the physics of radiative transfer in detail. We present results from spectral modeling of three black hole X-ray binaries: LMC X-3, GRO J1655-40, and XTE J1550-564. We fit the data with a range of spectral models that includes a multitemperature blackbody, a relativistic accretion disk with color-corrected blackbodies, and BHSPEC. We find that BHSPEC provides the best fit for a BeppoSAX observation of LMC X-3, which has the broadest energy coverage of our sample. It also provides the best fit for multiple epochs of RXTE data in this source, except at the highest luminosities (L/LEdd & gsim; 0.7). BHSPEC is also the best-fit model for multi-epoch observations of GRO J1655-40 and XTE J1550-564, although the best-fit inclination of the inner disk differs from the binary inclination. In all three sources our fits imply moderate black hole spins (a* & sim; 0.1-0.8).

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