Strong Gravity and the Masses of Stellar Black Holes

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Jan 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21511301m&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #113.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.562

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Mass determinations have now been made for 22 black holes in X-ray binaries. The distribution of these masses is a key constraint on models of the core collapse event that births a stellar black hole. The accretion-powered X-ray sources display distinct states. Each state provides one or more pathways to study the effects of strong gravity, such as relativistic jets and broadened iron lines, high-frequency oscillations, the absence of a material surface. These studies have been invigorated by recent measurements of the spins of several stellar black holes because knowledge of spin and mass provide a complete description of the space-time. The study of stellar black holes complements both the study of the similar, glacial phenomena observed for AGN and the vacuum phenomena predicted for gravitational-wave sources.

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