TY - JOUR
T1 - BlackCAT
T2 - A catalogue of stellar-mass black holes in X-ray transients
AU - Corral-Santana, J. M.
AU - Casares, J.
AU - Muñoz-Darias, T.
AU - Bauer, F. E.
AU - Martínez-Pais, I. G.
AU - Russell, D. M.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the anonymous referee for useful comments. We acknowledge financial support from CONICYT-Chile grants FONDECYT Postdoctoral Fellowship 3140310 (JMC-S), FONDECYT 1141218 (FEB), Basal-CATA PFB-06/2007 (JMS-C, FEB), “EMBIGGEN” Anillo ACT1101 (FEB), the Ministry of Economy, Development, and Tourism’s Millennium Science Initiative through grant IC120009, awarded to The Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, MAS (FEB) and the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) under grant AYA 2013-42627 (JC, TMD, IGMP). T.M.D. acknowledges hospitality during his 2015 visit to IA-PUC. This work makes use of observations from the LCOGT network, the CNTAC programs ID CN2014B-44 and CN2015A-88, the ESO Science Archive Facility under request number jcorral-160882, the GTC Public Archive at CAB (INTA-CSIC), and the Isaac Newton Group archive, which is maintained as part as the CASU Astronomical Data Centre at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and the LCOGT Archive, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology, under contract with the Las Cumbres Observatory. We are thankful to Danny Steeghs and Manuel A. P. Torres for providing us with some of the finding charts and Jorge Andrés Perez Prieto for his help with the creation of the web. We have used the web applications of the FTOOLS (Blackburn 1995) and PIMMS (Mukai 1993) software to create the transformation of the X-ray fluxes. Some peak X-ray fluxes were provided by the ASM/RXTE teams at MIT and at the RXTE SOF and GOF at NASA’s GSFC. This research made use of the MAXI data provided by RIKEN, JAXA and the MAXI team (Matsuoka et al. 2009).
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© ESO, 2016.
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - Aims. During the last ∼50 years, the population of black hole candidates in X-ray binaries has increased considerably, with 59 Galactic objects being detected in transient low-mass X-ray binaries, as well as a few in persistent systems (including ∼5 extragalactic binaries). Methods. We collect near-infrared, optical, and X-ray information spread over hundreds of references to study the population of black holes in X-ray transients as a whole. Results. We present the most updated catalogue of black hole transients. This contains X-ray, optical, and near-infrared observations, together with their astrometric and dynamical properties. The catalogue provides new and useful information in both statistical and observational parameters and provides a thorough and complete overview of the black hole population in the Milky Way. Analysing the distances and spatial distribution of the observed systems, we estimate a total population of ∼1300 Galactic black hole transients. This means that we have only discovered less than ∼5% of the total Galactic distribution.
AB - Aims. During the last ∼50 years, the population of black hole candidates in X-ray binaries has increased considerably, with 59 Galactic objects being detected in transient low-mass X-ray binaries, as well as a few in persistent systems (including ∼5 extragalactic binaries). Methods. We collect near-infrared, optical, and X-ray information spread over hundreds of references to study the population of black holes in X-ray transients as a whole. Results. We present the most updated catalogue of black hole transients. This contains X-ray, optical, and near-infrared observations, together with their astrometric and dynamical properties. The catalogue provides new and useful information in both statistical and observational parameters and provides a thorough and complete overview of the black hole population in the Milky Way. Analysing the distances and spatial distribution of the observed systems, we estimate a total population of ∼1300 Galactic black hole transients. This means that we have only discovered less than ∼5% of the total Galactic distribution.
KW - X-rays: binaries
KW - catalogs
KW - stars: black holes
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U2 - 10.1051/0004-6361/201527130
DO - 10.1051/0004-6361/201527130
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84959212156
SN - 0004-6361
VL - 587
JO - Astronomy and Astrophysics
JF - Astronomy and Astrophysics
M1 - A61
ER -