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Scientific paper
May 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000iaus..195...37t&link_type=abstract
Highly Energetic Physical Processes and Mechanisms for Emission from Astrophysical Plasmas, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #195, h
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Recent results of X-ray observations of Galactic X-ray binaries containing black holes are reviewed. So far, eleven X-ray binaries are confirmed to contain a black hole based on the mass determined from the optical mass functions. Study of these X-ray binaries shows that accreting black holes exhibit a characteristic X-ray spectrum that is distinct from that of accreting neutron stars. In total, about two dozen X-ray binaries show this characteristic spectrum and are believed to contain a black hole. Most of them are low-mass X-ray binaries and are transients. The statistics indicate the presence of several hundred or more black holes in quiescent X-ray binaries in our galaxy. The observed properties of accreting black holes are discussed, and other, related subjects are also presented.
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