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The initial spin distribution of B-type stars revealed by the split main sequences of young star clusters
Chen Wang, Ben Hastings, Abel Schootemeijer +6
Spectroscopic observations of stars in young open clusters have revealed evidence for a dichotomous distribution of stellar rotational velocities, with 10-30% of stars rotating slo…
Searching for compact objects in the single-lined spectroscopic binaries of the young Galactic cluster NGC 6231
G. Banyard, L. Mahy, H. Sana +7
Recent evolutionary computations predict that a few percent of massive OB stars in binary systems should have a dormant BH companion. Despite several reported X-ray quiet OB+BH sys…
The Nature of Unseen Companions in Massive Single-Line Spectroscopic Binaries
Hugues Sana, Michael Abdul-Masih, Gareth Banyard +14
Massive stars are predominantly found in binaries and higher order multiples. While the period and eccentricity distributions of OB stars are now well established across different…
Identifying quiescent compact objects in massive Galactic single-lined spectroscopic binaries
L. Mahy, H. Sana, T. Shenar +13
Aims. To search for these rare objects, we study 32 Galactic O-type stars that were reported as SB1s in the literature. In our sample we include Cyg X-1, which is known to host an…
An X-ray quiet black hole born with a negligible kick in a massive binary within the Large Magellanic Cloud
Tomer Shenar, Hugues Sana, Laurent Mahy +35
Stellar-mass black holes are the final remnants of stars born with more than 15 solar masses. Billions are expected to reside in the Local Group, yet only few are known, mostly det…
Detecting Stripped Stars While Searching for Quiescent Black Holes
J. Bodensteiner, M. Heida, M. Abdul-Masih +13
While the number of stellar-mass black holes detected in X-rays or as gravitational wave sources is steadily increasing, the known population remains orders of magnitude smaller th…