The Missing Population of Be+Black Hole X-Ray Binaries

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Oct 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008iaus..252..399s&link_type=abstract

The Art of Modeling Stars in the 21st Century, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 252, p

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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X-Rays: Binaries, (Stars:) Binaries: Close, Stars: Evolution, Stars: Emission-Line, Be

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At present, 117 Be/neutron star (Be/NS) X-ray binaries (XRBs) are known in the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds, but not a single Be/black hole (Be/BH) binary was found so far. We carried out the calculations of stellar population synthesis to investigate the case of the apparently missing population of Be/BH XRBs. According to our calculations, the main reason of this disparity is the fact that within the orbital period range where Be XRBs are found (~10 to ~300 days), these systems are formed predominantly with a NS component. The systems with a BH component are formed predominantly with much longer orbital periods and they are not easy to detect.

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