黑洞的低质量X射线二进制星V404 Cygni是三重星系的一部分
Kevin B Burdge1,2, Kareem El-Badry3, Erin Kara4,5
1Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. kburdge@mit.edu.
Nature
|October 24, 2024
概括
黑洞的形成可能涉及到最小的
科学领域:
- 天文学与天体物理学
- 恒星进化
- 紧型物体
背景情况:
- 像黑洞和中子星这样的紧物体在形成过程中可能会受到"出生",从而获得动力.
- 对中子星击的实质性观测证据存在,但对黑洞出生击的证据有限.
- 一些黑洞形成的场景预测非常小的出生.
研究的目的:
- 使用低质量X射线双星 (LMXB) V404 Cygni 调查黑洞的诞生.
- 为了确定黑洞是否可以在几乎没有出生的情况下形成.
- 检查等级三重系统在LMXB进化中的作用.
主要方法:
- 分析V404天系统的轨道配置,
- 模拟黑洞及其同伴的引力影响.
- 根据系统的稳定性, 估计黑洞的诞生时间.
主要成果:
- V404天星系是一个等级的三重星系,其第三级伴星距离地球至少有3,500个AU.
- 在V404天中,黑洞可能受到5公里/秒以下的出生,以避免解锁第三级伴侣.
- 三级伴侣已经进化,表明该系统在35亿年前形成.
结论:
- 这些发现支持至少有一些黑洞是随着天生的而形成的.
- V404 Cygni 的三重结构验证了 LMXB 的进化模型.
- 黑洞在数十亿年的时间里至少从其二次伴侣中获得了半个太阳质量.
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