Application of magnetic braking theories to black hole binaries
- 1 January 1994
- proceedings article
- Published by AIP Publishing in AIP Conference Proceedings
- Vol. 308 (1) , 79-82
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.45992
Abstract
Many of the recently‐discovered soft x‐ray transients are also black hole candidates; I explore the possibility that magnetic braking, a plausible driving mechanism of mass transfer in these systems, may naturally lead black hole systems to become transients. I show that, regardless of the details, magnetic braking leads to a lower accretion rate for black hole primary with masses substantially greater than 1.4 M⊙ than for neutron star binaries.Keywords
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