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Disc accretion onto a binary black hole in a hierarchical triple system as an origin of the most luminous hyper-soft sources

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2026-03-10 v1

Abstract

We propose that the recently discovered luminous hypersoft X-ray sources can be explained by accretion onto a binary black hole in a hierarchical triple system. For black hole masses 15M\sim 15 M_\odot, the orbital separation of the internal binary might be 0.01\sim 0.01 ~AU. If the donor provides 108M\gtrsim 10^{-8} M_\odot yr1^{-1}, then the circumbinary accretion disc can explain the observed properties of the most luminous supersoft sources.

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@article{arxiv.2603.08294,
  title  = {Disc accretion onto a binary black hole in a hierarchical triple system as an origin of the most luminous hyper-soft sources},
  author = {Sergei B. Popov and Galina V. Lipunova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.08294},
  year   = {2026}
}

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4 pages, an expanded version of a note in RNAAS