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Why Low-Mass Black-Hole Binaries Are Transient | | Andrew King
; Ulrich Kolb
; Ewa Szuszkiewicz
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6 May 1997 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | University of Leicester, U.K. | | Abstract: | We consider transient behavior in low-mass X-ray binaries. In short-period neutron-star systems (orbital period less than ~ 1d) irradiation of the accretion disk by the central source suppresses this except at very low mass transfer rates. Formation constraints however imply that a significant fraction of these neutron star systems have nuclear-evolved main-sequence secondaries and thus mass transfer rates low enough to be transient. But most short-period low-mass black-hole systems will form with unevolved main-sequence companions and have much higher mass transfer rates. The fact that essentially all of them are nevertheless transient shows that irradiation is weaker, as a direct consequence of the fundamental black-hole property - the lack of a hard stellar surface. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/9705036 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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