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The Case for Hypercritical Accretion in M33 X-7
E. Moreno Mendez, G. E. Brown, C. -H. Lee +1
The spin parameter of the black hole in M33 X-7 has recently been measured to be a*=0.77+-0.05 (Liu et al. 2008). It has been proposed that the spin of the 15.65 M_sun black hole i…
LMC X-3 May Be a Relic of a GRB Similar to Cosmological GRBs
G. E. Brown, C. -H. Lee, E. Moreno Mendez
The present scenario for high-luminosity long gamma-ray bursts is strongly influenced by the paper of Fruchter et al. (2006). Whereas the main contention of this paper that these G…
Kerr Parameters for Stellar Mass Black Holes and Their Consequences for GRBs and Hypernovae
E. Moreno Mendez, G. E. Brown, C. -H. Lee +1
Recent measurements of the Kerr parameters a* for two black-hole binaries in our Galaxy (Shafee et al. 2006), GRO J1655-40 and 4U 1543-47 of a*=0.65-0.75 and a*=0.75-0.85, respecti…
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,…
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…