We revisit the classic system of a spherically symmetric black hole in general relativity (i.e., a Schwarzschild black hole) surrounded by a geometrically thin accretion disk. Our purpose is to examine whether one can determine three parameters of this system (i.e., black hole mass , distance between the black hole and an observer , inclination angle ) solely by observing the accretion disk and the black hole shadow. A point in our analysis is to allow to be finite, which is set to be infinite in most relevant studies. First, it is shown that one can determine the values of , where is the so-called angular gravitational radius, from the size and shape of shadow. Then, it is shown that if one additionally knows the accretion rate (respectively, mass ) by any independent theoretical or observational approach, one can determine the values of [respectively, ] without degeneracy, in principle, from the value of flux at any point on the accretion disk.

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