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A correlation between H α trough depth and inclination in quiescent X-ray transients: evidence for a low-mass black hole in GRO J0422+32

A correlation between H α trough depth and inclination in quiescent X-ray transients: evidence for a low-mass black hole in GRO J0422+32

We present a new method to derive binary inclinations in quiescent black hole (BH) X-ray transients (XRTs), based on the depth of the trough (T) from double-peaked Ha emission profiles arising in accretion discs. We find that the inclination angle (i) is linearly correlated with T in phase-averaged spectra with …