A catalogue of high-mass X-ray binaries in the Galaxy: from the INTEGRAL to the <i>Gaia</i> era

Fortin, Francis; García, Federico; Simaz-Bunzel, A.; Chaty, S.

doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202245236

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“…However, such low birth masses are in conflict with BHs in high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), where a compact object accretes matter from the stellar winds of a young and massive (5 M e ) companion. Of the many known HMXBs (>100 in the MW alone; see the recent catalogs of Fortin et al 2023;Neumann et al 2023), three are known to host dynamically confirmed BHs: Cygnus X-1, with a BH mass of 21.2 ± 2.2 M e and an age of ∼4 Myr (Miller-Jones et al 2021); LMC X-1, with a BH mass of 10.91 ± 1.41 M e and an age of ∼5 Myr (Orosz et al 2009); and M33 X-7, with a BH mass of 11.4 M e and an age of ∼5.8 Myr (Ramachandran et al 2022). Because their accretion is fed from the winds of the companion, these BHs likely have masses close to their natal values.…”

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Constraints on the Cosmological Coupling of Black Holes from the Globular Cluster NGC 3201

Rodriguez¹

2023

ApJL

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Globular clusters are among the oldest stellar populations in the Milky Way; consequently, they also host some of the oldest known stellar-mass black holes, providing insight into black hole formation and evolution in the early (z ≳ 2) universe. Recent observations of supermassive black holes in elliptical galaxies have been invoked to suggest the possibility of a cosmological coupling between astrophysical black holes and the surrounding expanding universe, offering a mechanism for black holes to grow over cosmic time and potentially explaining the origin of dark energy. In this paper, I show that the mass functions of the two radial velocity black hole candidates in NGC 3201 place strong constraints on the cosmologically coupled growth of black holes. In particular, the amount of coupling required to explain the origin of dark energy would either require both NGC 3201 black holes to be nearly face on (a configuration with probability of at most 10−4) or one of the BHs would need to have formed with a mass below that of the most massive neutron stars (2.2 M ⊙). This emphasizes that these and other detached black hole–star binaries can serve not only as laboratories for compact object and binary astrophysics but as constraints on the long-term evolution of astrophysical black holes.

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Constraints on the Cosmological Coupling of Black Holes from the Globular Cluster NGC 3201

Rodriguez¹

2023

ApJL

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“…A handful of sources which are included in the recently published catalogue of high-mass X-ray binaries by Fortin et al (2023) are missing in our catalogue.Those are the already mentioned Sources AX J1700.1-4157, SAX J1819.3-2525 and AX J1838.0-0655, as well as GRS 1758-258. In the case of GRS 1758-258, there is a possibility that the system is a intermediate-mass X-ray binary as stated by Martí et al (2016), hence this source can be found in Avakyan et al (2023) instead of this catalogue.…”

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“…can be found in the recently published catalogue of high-mass X-ray binaries in the Galaxy byFortin et al (2023) 26 https://alasky.u-strasbg.fr/hips-image-services/hips2fits…”

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XRBcats: Galactic High Mass X-ray Binary Catalogue

Neumann¹,

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Doroshenko³

et al. 2023

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Context. We present a new catalogue of the high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) in the Galaxy improving upon the most recent such catalogue. We include new HMXBs discovered since aforementioned publication and revise the classification for several objects previously considered HMXBs or candidates. The catalogue includes both basic information such as source names, coordinates, types, and more detailed data such as distance and X-ray luminosity estimates, binary system parameters and other characteristic properties of 169 HMXBs, together with appropriate references to the literature. Finding charts in several bands from infra-red to hard X-rays are also included for each object. Aims. The aim of this catalogue is to provide the reader a list of all currently known Galactic HMXBs with some basic information on both compact objects and non-degenerate counterpart properties (where available). We also include objects tentatively classified as HXMBs in the literature and give a brief motivation for the classifcation in each relevant case. Methods. The catalogue is compiled based on a search of known HMXBs and candidates in all commonly available databases and literature published before 31 October 2022. Relevant properties in the optical and other bands were collected for all objects either from the literature or using the data provided by large-scale surveys. In the later case, the counterparts in each individual survey were found by cross-correlating positions of identified HMXBs with relevant databases.Results. An up-to date catalogue of Galactic HMXBs is presented to facilitate research in this area. An attempt was made to collect a larger set of relevant HMXB properties in a more uniform way compared to previously published works.

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“…The Corbet diagram (spin period 𝑃 spin vs. orbital period 𝑃 orb ) has been used as a great tool for studying the formation,evolution and accretion history of NS HMXB (Corbet 1984). We used the most updated HMXB catalog (Fortin et al 2023) and our NS LMXB samples to build the Corbet diagram. Our NS LMXB sample obviously differs from the HMXB sample on the Corbet diagram (see Figure 7).…”

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An apparent positive relation between spin and orbital angular momentum in X-ray binaries

Yan

Zhang

2023

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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The origin of current angular momentum (AM) of the black hole (BH) in X-ray binary (XRB) is still unclear, which is related with the birth and/or the growth of the BH. Here we collect the spin parameters a* measured in BH XRBs and find an apparent bimodal distribution centered at ∼ 0.17 and 0.83. We find a positive relation between the spin parameter and the orbital period/orbital separation through combining distinct XRB categories, including neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), Roche-lobe overflow (RLOF) BH XRBs and wind-fed BH XRBs. It seems that the AM of the compact star and the binary orbit correlates by combining the different XRB systems. These positive relations imply that accretion process is a common mechanism for spinning up the compact star in these diverse XRB systems. We infer that the low and high spin BH XRBs may experience different evolution and accretion history, which corresponds to the bimodal distribution of the BH spin parameters. The low spin BHs (a* < 0.3) are similar to the NS LMXBs, the compact star of which is spun-up by the low-level accretion, and the high spin BHs (a* > 0.5) had experienced a short hypercritical accretion ($\gg \dot{M}_\mathrm{Edd}$) period, during which, the BH spin dramatically increased.

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A catalogue of high-mass X-ray binaries in the Galaxy: from the INTEGRAL to the Gaia era

Cited by 39 publications

References 348 publications

Constraints on the Cosmological Coupling of Black Holes from the Globular Cluster NGC 3201

Constraints on the Cosmological Coupling of Black Holes from the Globular Cluster NGC 3201

XRBcats: Galactic High Mass X-ray Binary Catalogue

An apparent positive relation between spin and orbital angular momentum in X-ray binaries

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