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 , the orbital separation of the internal binary might be ~AU. If the donor provides yr, 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