Stellar black hole mass function: determination and possible implications for fundamental gravity
| dc.creator | Postnov, Konstantin | |
| dc.date | 2003-07-10 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-25T12:00:55Z | |
| dc.description | We discuss masses of stellar black holes found in binary systems and errors in their determination. The observed mass distribution has a broad shape within the range $4-16 M_\odot$ without visible concentration to some preferred value. On the other hand, the black hole mass funciton as inferred from observations of luminous X-ray sources in other galaxies exhibits a power-law form. We show that both dynamically obtained black hole mass function and derived from X-ray observations can be made consistent in the frame of the hypothesis of enhanced black hole evaporation on a RSII brane for reasonable values of the warp-factor of the Anti-de-Sitter bulk space. | |
| dc.description | 6 pages, latex, 1 figure, uses "moriond.sty", contribution to the XXXVIIIth Rencontres de Moriond on Gravitational Waves and Experimental Gravity, Les Arcs (France), March 23-29 2003. Enlarged version is accepted for publication in Astronomy Reports | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307204 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307204 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/7122 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Stellar black hole mass function: determination and possible implications for fundamental gravity | |
| dc.type | text |