Black-Hole Transients and the Eddington Limit

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2000-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0002286v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

3 pages, no figures; to appear in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03328.x

I show that the Eddington limit implies a critical orbital period P_crit(BH)
= 2d beyond which black-hole LMXBs cannot appear as persistent systems. The
unusual behaviour of GRO J1655-40 may result from its location close to this
critical period.

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