And Don't Forget The Black Holes

Bethe, H. A.; Brown, G. E.; Lee, C. -H.

And Don't Forget The Black Holes

Authors

Bethe, H. A.

Brown, G. E.

Lee, C. -H.

Description

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, but also adds the missing link in the double helium star model of binary NS evolution. This model gives $\sim 20$ times more gravitational merging of low-mass black-hole (LMBH), NS binaries than binary NS's, whatever the rate for the latter is.
8pages, 1figure