Observational evidence for stellar-mass black holes

Bibcode
2007IAUS..238....3C
DOI
10.1017/S1743921307004590
Casares, Jorge
Referencia bibliográfica

Black Holes from Stars to Galaxies -- Across the Range of Masses. Edited by V. Karas and G. Matt. Proceedings of IAU Symposium #238, held 21-25 August, 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007., pp.3-12

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2007
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1
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0
Número de citas
56
Número de citas referidas
49
Descripción
Radial velocity studies of X-ray binaries still provide the most solid evidence for the existence of stellar-mass black holes. We currently have 20 confirmed cases, with dynamical masses in excess of 3 M[sun]. Accurate masses have been obtained for a subset of systems which give us a hint on the mass spectrum of the black hole population. These cases will be summarized and the most recent results presented.
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