Information on stellar black hole formation derived from X-ray binaries and gamma ray bursts
The dozen known black-hole X-ray binaries are our sole source of information on the stellar-mass black-hole population in our Galaxy. It is shown, from a combination of evolutionary considerations and the observed galactic incidence of low-mass X-ray binaries that contain neutron stars and black hol...
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2001
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