Mass constraints to Sco X-1 from Bowen fluorescence and deep near-infrared spectroscopy
Mass constraints to Sco X-1 from Bowen fluorescence and deep near-infrared spectroscopy
More than 50 years after the dawn of X-ray astronomy, the dynamical parameters of the prototypical X-ray binary Sco X-1 are still unknown. We combine a Monte Carlo analysis, which includes all the previously known orbital parameters of the system, along with the K-correction to set dynamical constraints to the …