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The quest for collapsed/frozen stars in single-line spectroscopic binary systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2016

Virginia Trimble
Virginia Trimble*
Affiliation:
University of California Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy Irvine, California 92697, USA email: vtrimble@uci.edu
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Abstract

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Black holes are now commonplace, among the stars, in Galactic centers, and perhaps other places. But within living memory, their very existence was doubted by many, and few chose to look for them. Zeldovich and Guseinov were first, followed by Trimble and Thorne, using a method that would have identified HDE 226868 as a plausible candidate, if it had been in the 1968 catalogue of spectroscopic binaries. That it was not arose from an unhappy accident in the observing program of Daniel M. Popper long before the discovery of X-ray binaries and the identification of Cygnus X-1 with that hot, massive star and its collapsed companion.

Keywords

Black holescollapsed starsCygnus X-1HDE 226868spectroscopic binaries
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 11 , Symposium S308: The Zeldovich Universe: Genesis and Growth of the Cosmic Web , June 2014 , pp. 38 - 45
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

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