Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-07-09
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.364:344,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Few comments added (minor revision)
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09568.x
We study accretion in binaries hosting an intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) of 1000 solar masses, and a donor star more massive than 15 solar masses. These systems experience an active X-ray phase characterized by luminosities varying over a wide interval, from <10^36 erg/s up to a few 10^40 erg/s typical of the ultra luminous X-ray sources (ULXs). Roche lobe overflow on the zero-age main sequence and donor masses above 20 solar masses can maintain a long-lived accretion phase at the level required to feed a ULX source. In wide systems, wind transfer rates are magnified by the focusing action of the IMBH yielding wind luminosities around 10^38 erg/s. These high mass-IMBH binaries can be identified as progenitors of IMBH-radio pulsar (PSR) binaries. We find that the formation of an IMBH-PSR binary does not necessarely require the transit through a ULX phase, but that a ULX can highlight a system that will evolve into an IMBH-PSR, if the mass of the donor star is constrained to lie within 15 to 30 solar masses. We show that binary evolution delivers the pre-exploding helium core in an orbit such that after explosion, the neutron star has a very high probability to remain bound to the IMBH, at distances of 1-10 AU. The detection of an IMBH-PSR binary in the Milky Way has suffered, so far, from the same small number of statistics limit affecting the population of ULXs in our Galaxy. Ongoing deeper surveys or next generation radio telescopes like SKA will have an improved chance to unveil such intriguing systems. Timing analysis of a pulsar orbiting around an IMBH would weigh the black hole in the still uncharted interval of mass around 1000 solar masses
Colpi Monica
Faulkner Andrew
Patruno Alessandro
Possenti Andrea
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