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Revealing the Galactic Population of BHs

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2018-06-20 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We discuss the case for using the Next Generation Very Large Array both to discover new black hole X-ray binaries astrometrically, and to characterize them. We anticipate that the ngVLA will be able to find \sim100 new black hole X-ray binaries, as well as a host of other interesting radio stars, in a few hundred hour survey. Parallax and astrometric wobble measurements will be achievable in feasible follow-up surveys especially using long baseline capabilities. The ngVLA's high angular resolution, high survey speed, and high frequency sensitivity give it a unique range of parameter space over which it is sensitive.

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@article{arxiv.1806.07270,
  title  = {Revealing the Galactic Population of BHs},
  author = {Thomas J. Maccarone and Laura Chomiuk and Jay Strader and James Miller-Jones and Greg Sivakoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.07270},
  year   = {2018}
}

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9 pages, article for ngVLA Science Book