Accreting black hole binaries in globular clusters

Abstract

We explore the formation of mass-transferring binary systems containing black holes within globular clusters. We show that it is possible to form mass-transferring black hole binaries with main sequence, giant, and white dwarf companions with a variety of orbital parameters in globular clusters spanning a large range in present-day properties. All mass-transferring black hole binaries found in our models at late times are dynamically created. The black holes in these systems experienced a median of $\sim 30$ dynamical encounters within the cluster before and after acquiring the donor. Furthermore, we show that the presence of mass-transferring black hole systems has little correlation with the total number of black holes within the cluster at any time. This is because the net rate of formation of black hole-non-black hole binaries in a cluster is largely independent of the total number of retained black holes. Our results suggest that the detection of a mass-transferring black hole binary in a globular cluster does not necessarily indicate that the host cluster contains a large black hole population.

arXiv commentv2. Manuscript submitted to The Astrophysical Journal. Comments welcome

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