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- Title
Gaia BH1: A Key for Understanding the Demography of Low-q Binaries in the Milky Way Galaxy.
- Authors
Malkov, Oleg
- Abstract
The recently discovered Gaia BH1 binary system, a Sun-like star and a dark object (presumably a black hole), may significantly change our understanding of the population of binaries. The paper presents the components mass ratio (q) distributions of binary systems of different observational classes. They all show a significant shortage of low-q systems. In this work, I demonstrate (quantitatively) how our ignorance extends, and point out the importance of discovering and studying systems like Gaia BH1. In addition, an approximate mass–temperature relation and mass ratio–magnitude difference relation for main-sequence stars are presented here.
- Subjects
MILKY Way; MAIN sequence (Astronomy); BLACK holes; DEMOGRAPHY; BINARY stars
- Publication
Galaxies (2075-4434), 2023, Vol 11, Issue 5, p98
- ISSN
2075-4434
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/galaxies11050098