A search for black holes with metal-poor stellar companions: I. Survey sample selection and single epoch radial velocity follow-up

Casey Y. Lam, Joshua D. Simon, Kareem El-Badry +3

Stellar-mass black holes (BHs) above $30M_{\odot }$ are predicted to form from low-metallicity progenitors, but direct detections of such systems in the Milky Way remain scarce. Moti…