4 papers
And Don't Forget The Black Holes
H. A. Bethe, G. E. Brown, C. -H. Lee
The discovery of the highly relativistic neutron star (NS) binary (in which both NS's are pulsars) not only increases the estimated merging rate for the two NS's by a large factor,…
Evolution and Merging of Binaries with Compact Objects
H. A. Bethe, G. E. Brown, C. -H. Lee
In the light of recent observations in which short gamma-ray bursts are interpreted as arising from black-hole(BH), neutron-star(NS) or NS-NS mergings we would like to review our r…
High Mass Black Holes in Soft X-Ray Transients: Gap in Black Hole Masses ?
G. E. Brown, C. -H. Lee, H. A. Bethe
We suggest that high-mass black holes; i.e., black holes of several solar masses, can be formed in binaries with low-mass main-sequence companions, provided that the hydrogen envel…
Brightness from the Blackest Night: Bursts of Gamma Rays and Gravity Waves from Black Hole Binaries
G. E. Brown, R. A. M. J. Wijers, C. -H. Lee +2
We use recent results in binary stellar evolution to argue that binaries with at least one black hole dominate the rate of compact-object mergers. Two phenomena generally attributa…