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A Multiwavelength Study of the Massive Colliding Wind Binary WR 20a: A Possible Progenitor for Fast-Spinning LIGO Binary Black Hole Mergers
Grace M. Olivier, Laura A. Lopez, Katie Auchettl +7
WR 20a is the most massive close-in binary known in our Galaxy. It is composed of two 80 M Wolf-Rayet stars with a short period of 3.7 days in the open cl…
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Discovery of a Candidate Black Hole - Giant Star Binary System in the Galactic Field
Todd A. Thompson, Christopher S. Kochanek, Krzysztof Z. Stanek +14
We report the discovery of the first likely black hole in a non-interacting binary system with a field red giant. By combining radial velocity measurements from the Apache Point Ob…