1304.0354 (M G Bowler)

Yet more on the circumbinary disk of SS 433    [PDF]

M G Bowler

The H and He emission lines of the microquasar SS 433 contain features that look very like emission from a circumbinary ring. Phenomenological models have been successful but contain certain ad hoc features. In this note the lines are treated as recombination lines from a highly ionized environment and differences between H and He, previously unexplained, are understood in terms of the different ionization potentials. It now seems inconceivable that these spectral features have origin other than in a circumbinary ring orbiting at approximately 250 km/s - in which case the system mass is approximately 40 solar masses.

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