X-ray Binaries and ULXs

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• Peter Jonker (SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research)
• Thursday 19 November 2015, 16:00-17:00
• Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Simon Hodgkin.

I will explain how dynamical mass measurements can be obtained for the black holes in these single-lined spectroscopic binaries. The goal of such measurements is to investigate how black holes forms and, in particular, to investigate if intermediate-mass black holes exist. I will highlight two recent results providing the first (tentative) dynamical evidence that indeed black holes more massive than the typical 10 solar masses might exist.

This talk is part of the Institute of Astronomy Colloquia series.

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