出版社:SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要:We present a map of Black Hole Binaries (BHBs) in our Galaxy, based on a comprehensive review of their distances to the Sun and utilising a recent Milky Way spiral structure result derived from Spitzer data. The observed Galactic BHB distribution is used to obtain a population size of 1800 objects, assuming that they are distributed like Population II objects, in view of generally low mass stellar companions. When recurrence times and unconfirmed, candidate BHBs are taken into account, the total number may increase to 10,000 objects.