The mass of the black hole in LMC X-3

@article{Orosz2014TheMO,
  title={The mass of the black hole in LMC X-3},
  author={Jerome A. Orosz and James F. Steiner and Jeffrey E. McClintock and Michelle M. Buxton and Charles D. Bailyn and D Steeghs and Alec Guberman and Manuel A P Torres},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2014},
  volume={794},
  pages={154}
}
We analyze a large set of new and archival photometric and spectroscopic observations of LMC X-3 to arrive at a self-consistent dynamical model for the system. Using echelle spectra obtained with the Magellan Inamori Kyocera Echelle instrument on the 6.5 m Magellan Clay telescope and the UVES instrument on the second 8.2 m Very Large Telescope, we find a velocity semiamplitude for the secondary star of K 2 = 241.1 ± 6.2 km s–1, where the uncertainty includes an estimate of the systematic error… 
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