We have studied the future evolution of a recently discovered ULX source P13 in NGC7793. This source was shown to contain a 5-15M⊙ black hole and a massive 18-23M⊙ B9Ia companion on a 64 day orbit. For low black hole mass (5-10M⊙) and high companion mass ≳20M⊙ the binary is predicted to initiate a common envelope evolution in near future and significantly decrease the orbital separation (6 hr orbit). This leads to a high probability (∼70%) of the system surviving a supernova explosion that will form a neutron star out of the companion. About one third of the surviving BH-NS systems will merge within Hubble time and be a source of high frequency gravitational radiation. We estimate that the chances of detection of BH-NS systems with advanced LIGO/Virgo that form via P13-evolutionary channel are at the level of 0.1 yr−1 with wide range of allowed probability 0÷0.6yr−1. This is the fourth empirical estimate of BH-NS merger rate.
@article{arxiv.1601.02551,
title = {P13 an ULX that is a potential progenitor of merging BH-NS system},
author = {B. Beldycki and K. Belczynski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.02551},
year = {2016}
}
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10 pages, 3 figures, Submitted to Acta Astronomica