Bisectors as Distance Estimators for Microquasars?
arXiv:astro-ph/0609608
Abstract
We present a new and exploratory method to estimate the distance of microquasars by suggesting an empirical correlation between the bluemost point of the bisector of the cross-correlation function and the absolute magnitude.
2 pages, no figures, to appear in proc. of "Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics", Aveiro, Sep. 2006, eds N. Santos et al