Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-10-05
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
46 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Physics Report
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-1573(00)00035-1
In this article we consider the formation and evolution of black holes, especially those in binary stars where radiation from the matter falling on them can be seen. We consider a number of effects introduced by some of us, which are not traditionally included in binary evolution of massive stars. These are (i) hypercritical accretion, which allows neutron stars to accrete enough matter to collapse to a black hole during their spiral-in into another star. (ii) the strong mass loss of helium stars, which causes their evolution to differ from that of the helium core of a massive star. (iii) The direct formation of low-mass black holes ($M\sim2\msun$) from single stars, a consequence of a significant strange-matter content of the nuclear-matter equation of state at high density. We discuss these processes here, and then review how they affect various populations of binaries with black holes and neutron stars.
Bethe Hans A.
Brown Gerald E.
Lee Chang Hoon
Wijers Ralph A. M. J.
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