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P13 an ULX that is a potential progenitor of merging BH-NS system

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2016-01-13 v2

Abstract

We have studied the future evolution of a recently discovered ULX source P13 in NGC7793. This source was shown to contain a 5-15MM_{\odot} black hole and a massive 18-23MM_{\odot} B9Ia companion on a 64 day orbit. For low black hole mass (5-10MM_{\odot}) and high companion mass 20M\gtrsim 20 M_{\odot} 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%\sim70\%) 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 yr1^{-1} with wide range of allowed probability 0÷0.60 \div 0.6yr1^{-1}. This is the fourth empirical estimate of BH-NS merger rate.

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@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