The evolutionary status of the black hole candidate V404 Cygni

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Binary Stars, Black Holes (Astronomy), Mass Transfer, Stellar Mass, Stellar Mass Accretion, X Ray Stars, Companion Stars, Roche Limit, Stellar Luminosity, X Ray Astronomy

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I show that the black hole candidate system V404 Cygni conforms to a simple picture of 'stripped-giant' evolution, in which an evolved secondary star of core mass Mc of about 0.20-0.22 solar mass overflows its Roche lobe. The predicted absolute magnitudes for this star give system distances of 3.5-5.1 kpc and peak X-ray luminosities of about 1.8-3.75 x 10 exp 39 erg/s. The mass-transfer rates predicted by the evolutionary picture agree well with X-ray observations.

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