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Formation rate of LB-1-like systems through dynamical interactions

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-05-20 v3

Abstract

We estimate formation rates of LB-1-like systems through dynamical interactions in the framework of the theory of stellar evolution before the discovery of the LB-1 system. The LB-1 system contains 70M\sim 70M_\odot black hole (BH), so-called pair instability (PI)-gap BH, and B-type star with solar metallicity, and has nearly zero eccentricity. The most efficient formation mechanism is as follows. In an open cluster, a naked helium (He) star (with 20M\sim 20M_\odot) collides with a heavy main-sequence (MS) star (with 50M\sim 50M_\odot) which has a B-type companion. The collision results in a binary consisting of the collision product and B-type star with a high eccentricity. The binary can be circularized through the dynamical tide with radiative damping of the collision-product envelope. Finally, the collision product collapses to a PI-gap BH, avoiding pulsational pair instability and pair instability supernovae because its He core is as massive as the pre-colliding naked He star. We find that the number of LB-1-like systems in the Milky Way galaxy is 0.01(ρoc/104M\mboxpc3)\sim 0.01 (\rho_{\rm oc} / 10^4 M_\odot \mbox{pc}^{-3}), where ρoc\rho_{\rm oc} is the initial mass densities of open clusters. If we take into account LB-1-like systems with O-type companion stars, the number increases to 0.03(ρoc/104M\mboxpc3)\sim 0.03 (\rho_{\rm oc} / 10^4 M_\odot \mbox{pc}^{-3}). This mechanism can form LB-1-like systems at least 10 times more efficiently than the other mechanisms: captures of B-type stars by PI-gap BHs, stellar collisions between other type stars, and stellar mergers in hierarchical triple systems. We conclude that no dynamical mechanism can explain the presence of the LB-1 system.

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@article{arxiv.1912.04509,
  title  = {Formation rate of LB-1-like systems through dynamical interactions},
  author = {Ataru Tanikawa and Tomoya Kinugawa and Jun Kumamoto and Michiko S. Fujii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.04509},
  year   = {2020}
}

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9 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in PASJ

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