{"title":"Application of magnetic braking theories to black hole binaries","authors":"K. Mukai","doi":"10.1063/1.45992","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Many of the recently‐discovered soft x‐ray transients are also black hole candidates; I explore the possibility that magnetic braking, a plausible driving mechanism of mass transfer in these systems, may naturally lead black hole systems to become transients. I show that, regardless of the details, magnetic braking leads to a lower accretion rate for black hole primary with masses substantially greater than 1.4 M⊙ than for neutron star binaries.","PeriodicalId":101857,"journal":{"name":"The evolution of X‐ray binaries","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The evolution of X‐ray binaries","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.45992","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Many of the recently‐discovered soft x‐ray transients are also black hole candidates; I explore the possibility that magnetic braking, a plausible driving mechanism of mass transfer in these systems, may naturally lead black hole systems to become transients. I show that, regardless of the details, magnetic braking leads to a lower accretion rate for black hole primary with masses substantially greater than 1.4 M⊙ than for neutron star binaries.