Why Do Black--Hole X-ray Binaries Tend to Be Transient?

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1999-11-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9911143v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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6 pages, 2 figures; Proceedings of the ESO Workshop on "Black Holes in Binaries and Galactic Nuclei: Diagnostics, Demography a

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Black hole X-ray binaries are transient probably because their discs are subject to the same thermal-viscous instability which is present in dwarf nova binary systems. I discuss applications of the dwarf-nova instability model to transient, low-mass, X-ray binary systems. When disc truncation and X-ray irradiation are taken into account this model is capable of reproducing the basic properties of X-ray binary outbursts (Dubus et al. 2000).

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