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Inventory of black hole binaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Jerome A. Orosz
Jerome A. Orosz*
Affiliation:
Sterrekundig Instituut, Universiteit Utrecht, Princetonplein 5, NL-3584 CC Utrecht, Nederland

Abstract

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A small group of X-ray binaries currently provides the best evidence for the existence of stellar-mass black holes. These objects are interacting binary systems where the X-rays arise from accretion of material onto a compact object (i.e., an object with a radius of less than a few hundred km). In some favourable cases, optical studies of the companion star lead to dynamical mass estimates for both components. In 17 cases, the mass of the compact object in an X-ray binary has been shown to exceed the maximum mass of a stable neutron star (about 3 M⊙), which leads to the conclusion that these objects are black holes. In this contribution I will review the basic properties of these black hole binaries.

Type
Part 2. Interiors of Massive Stars
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 212: A Massive Star Odyssey: From Main Sequence to Supernova , 2003 , pp. 365 - 371
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 

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