Stellar-Mass Black Holes and Ultraluminous X-ray Sources
Abstract
We review the likely population, observational properties, and broad implications of stellar-mass black holes and ultraluminous x-ray sources. We focus on the clear empirical rules connecting accretion and outflow that have been established for stellar-mass black holes in binary systems in the past decade and a half. These patterns of behavior are probably the keys that will allow us to understand black hole feedback on the largest scales over cosmological time scales.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- August 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.1221790
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1208.1138
- Bibcode:
- 2012Sci...337..540F
- Keywords:
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- ASTRONOMY;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- Review for Science Special Issue on black holes, 2012 August 3. 8 pages, 2 figures