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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