Reply to: On the signature of a 70-solar-mass black hole in LB-1

Jifeng Liu^{1

2

3}, Roberto Soria^{4

5}, Zheng Zheng⁶, Haotong Zhang⁷, Youjun Lu^{7

4}, Song Wang⁷, Hailong Yuan⁷

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. jfliu@bao.ac.cn.
² School of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. jfliu@bao.ac.cn.
³ WHU-NAOC Joint Center for Astronomy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. jfliu@bao.ac.cn.
⁴ School of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
⁵ Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
⁷ Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Comment

Jifeng Liu et al. Nature. 2020 Apr.

. 2020 Apr;580(7805):E16-E17.

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2217-9.

Jifeng Liu^{1

2

3}, Roberto Soria^{4

5}, Zheng Zheng⁶, Haotong Zhang⁷, Youjun Lu^{7

4}, Song Wang⁷, Hailong Yuan⁷

¹ Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. jfliu@bao.ac.cn.
² School of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. jfliu@bao.ac.cn.
³ WHU-NAOC Joint Center for Astronomy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. jfliu@bao.ac.cn.
⁴ School of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
⁵ Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
⁷ Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

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A wide star-black-hole binary system from radial-velocity measurements.
Liu J, Zhang H, Howard AW, Bai Z, Lu Y, Soria R, Justham S, Li X, Zheng Z, Wang T, Belczynski K, Casares J, Zhang W, Yuan H, Dong Y, Lei Y, Isaacson H, Wang S, Bai Y, Shao Y, Gao Q, Wang Y, Niu Z, Cui K, Zheng C, Mu X, Zhang L, Wang W, Heger A, Qi Z, Liao S, Lattanzi M, Gu WM, Wang J, Wu J, Shao L, Shen R, Wang X, Bregman J, Di Stefano R, Liu Q, Han Z, Zhang T, Wang H, Ren J, Zhang J, Zhang J, Wang X, Cabrera-Lavers A, Corradi R, Rebolo R, Zhao Y, Zhao G, Chu Y, Cui X. Liu J, et al. Nature. 2019 Nov;575(7784):618-621. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1766-2. Epub 2019 Nov 27. Nature. 2019. PMID: 31776491
On the signature of a 70-solar-mass black hole in LB-1.
Abdul-Masih M, Banyard G, Bodensteiner J, Bordier E, Bowman DM, Dsilva K, Fabry M, Hawcroft C, Mahy L, Marchant P, Raskin G, Reggiani M, Shenar T, Tkachenko A, Van Winckel H, Vermeylen L, Sana H. Abdul-Masih M, et al. Nature. 2020 Apr;580(7805):E11-E15. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2216-x. Epub 2020 Apr 29. Nature. 2020. PMID: 32350474 No abstract available.

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