Stellar black hole mass function: determination and possible implications for fundamental gravity

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2003-07-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307204v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, latex, 1 figure, uses "moriond.sty", contribution to the XXXVIIIth Rencontres de Moriond on Gravitational Waves and E

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We discuss masses of stellar black holes found in binary systems and errors in their determination. The observed mass distribution has a broad shape within the range $4-16 M_\odot$ without visible concentration to some preferred value. On the other hand, the black hole mass funciton as inferred from observations of luminous X-ray sources in other galaxies exhibits a power-law form. We show that both dynamically obtained black hole mass function and derived from X-ray observations can be made consistent in the frame of the hypothesis of enhanced black hole evaporation on a RSII brane for reasonable values of the warp-factor of the Anti-de-Sitter bulk space.

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