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Forming short-period Wolf-Rayet X-ray binaries and double black holes through stable mass transfer
Edward P. J. van den Heuvel, Simon F. Portegies Zwart, Selma E. de Mink
We show that black-hole High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) with O- or B-type donor stars and relatively short orbital periods, of order one week to several months may survive spiral…
Was the nineteenth century giant eruption of Eta Carinae a merger event in a triple system?
Simon Portegies Zwart, Edward P. J. van den Heuvel
We discuss the events that led to the giant eruption of Eta Carinae, and find that the mid-nineteenth century (in 1838-1843) giant mass-loss outburst has the characteristics of bei…
Formation of the Galactic Millisecond Pulsar Triple System PSR J0337+1715 - a Neutron Star with Two Orbiting White Dwarfs
Thomas Tauris, Ed van den Heuvel
The millisecond pulsar in a triple system (PSR J0337+1715, recently discovered by Ransom et al.) is an unusual neutron star with two orbiting white dwarfs. The existence of such a…
The formation of the eccentric-orbit millisecond pulsar J1903+0327 and the origin of single millisecond pulsars
Simon Portegies Zwart, Ed van den Heuvel, Joeri van Leeuwen +1
The millisecond pulsar J1903+0327 is accompanied by an ordinary G-dwarf star in an unusually wide (\,days) and eccentric () orbit. The stand…