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If confirmed, a wide binary system of 70 $M_{\odot}$ black hole (BH) and an 8 $M_{\odot}$ main sequence star (LB-1) is observed to reside in the Milky Way (MW). We show that long term evolution of an 8 $M_{\odot}$ star around a BH with mass between 5-70 $M_{\odot}$ makes them visible as ultra-luminous X-ray (ULX) sources in the sky. Given the expected ULX phase lifetime ($\approx0.1$ Myr) and their lack of detection in the MW, we conclude that the frequency of an 8-20 $M_{\odot}$ star to be in binary around a stellar mass BH should be less than ($f<2\times10^{-3}$). This is in tension with Liu et al. (2019) claimed detection frequency of LB-1 like system around 8-20$M_{\odot}$ stars ($f\approx3\times10^{-2}$). Moreover, the 8 $M_{\odot}$ star is likely to end as a neutron star (NS) born with a very small kick from an electron capture supernova (ECSN), leaving behind a wide NS-BH binary. So far less than 1\% of all the detectable pulsars in the MW are mapped and there has been no detection of any pulsars in binary systems around BHs which sets an upper bound of about 100 possible pulsar-BH systems in the MW. We show if the NS is born from ECSN, a frequency upper limit of ($f=5\times

Author

Safarzadeh, Mohammadtaher; Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico; Kilpatrick, Charles

Published

2019

Language

EN