The Observed Mass Distribution of Galactic Black Hole LMXBs Is Biased against Massive Black Holes
The discovery of gravitational-wave radiation from merging black holes (BHs) also uncovered BHs with masses in the range of ≍20-160 M ⊙. In contrast, the most massive Galactic stellar-mass BH currently known has a mass of ≍21 M ⊙. While low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) will never independently evolve into a binary BH system, and binary evolution
Jonker, Peter G. et al.
Fecha de publicación:
11
2021