Extremely fast orbital decay of the black hole X-ray binary Nova Muscae 1991
Extremely fast orbital decay of the black hole X-ray binary Nova Muscae 1991
We present new medium-resolution spectroscopic observations of the black hole X-ray binary Nova Muscae 1991 taken with X-Shooter spectrograph installed at the 8.2m-VLT telescope. These observations allow us to measure the time of inferior conjunction of the secondary star with the black hole in this system that, together with previous …