High Mass Black Holes in Soft X-Ray Transients: Gap in Black Hole Masses ?

C.-H. Lee; G.E. Brown; H.A. Bethe

arxiv: astro-ph/9909270 · v1 · submitted 1999-09-15 · 🌌 astro-ph

High Mass Black Holes in Soft X-Ray Transients: Gap in Black Hole Masses ?

G.E. Brown , C.-H. Lee , H.A. Bethe This is my paper

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We suggest that high-mass black holes; i.e., black holes of several solar masses, can be formed in binaries with low-mass main-sequence companions, provided that the hydrogen envelope of the massive star is removed in common envelope evolution which begins only after the massive star has finished He core burning. Our evolution scenario naturally explains the gap (low probability region) in the observed black hole masses.

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