Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-11-04
New Astron. 9 (2004) 225-237
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
20 pages, 5 figures, accepted for the publication in New Astronomy
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.newast.2003.10.005
Earlier works, which we review, have shown that if the Fe core in a presupernova star is to be sufficiently massive to collapse into a black hole, earlier in the evolution of the star the He core must be covered (clothed) by a hydrogen envelope during He core burning and removed only following this, in, e.g. common envelope evolution. This is classified as Case C mass transfer. These previous arguments were based chiefly on stellar evolution, especially depending on the way in which 12C burned. In this work we argue for Case C mass transfer on the basis of binary evolution. The giant progenitor of the black hole will have a large radius 1000 Rsun at the end of its supergiant stage. Its lifetime at that point will be short, about 1000 yrs, so it will not expand much further. Thus, the initial giant radius for Case C mass transfer will be constrained to a narrow band about 1000 Rsun. This has the consequence that the final separation a_f following common envelope evolution will depend nearly linearly on the mass of the companion m_d which becomes the donor after the He core of the giant has collapsed into the black hole. The separation at which this collapse takes place is essentially a_f, because of the rapid evolution of the giant. (In at least two binaries the black hole donor separation has been substantially increased because of mass loss in the black hole formation. These can be reconstructed from the amount of mass deposited on the donor in this mass loss.) We show that the reconstructed preexplosion separations of the black hole binaries fit well the linear relationship.
Brown Gerald E.
Lee Chang-Hwan
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