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…