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Chemical Abundances of the Secondary Star in the Black Hole X‐Ray Binary XTE J1118+480

  • Authors: Jonay I. González Hernández, Rafael Rebolo, Garik Israelian, Alexei V. Filippenko, Ryan Chornock, Nozomu Tominaga, Hideyuki Umeda, and Ken'ichi Nomoto

González Hernández et al. 2008 The Astrophysical Journal 679 732.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 11.

(a) Observed abundances (filled circles with error bars) compared with the expected abundances in the secondary star after having captured 90% of the matter ejected within the solid angle subtended by the secondary from a metal‐poor (Z = 0.004) 30 M spherically symmetric supernova explosion (MHe = 11 M) with EK = 1051 ergs for two different mass cuts, Mcut = 2.52 M (solid line with open circles) and Mcut = 3.04 M (dash‐dotted line with open circles). The initial abundances of the secondary star were adopted for the average abundances of the thick‐disk stars with [Fe/H] = −0.7 ± 0.2, and the initial orbital distance was ac,i ≈ 6 R. (b) Same as (a), but for a spherically symmetric hypernova explosion (EK = 20 × 1051 ergs) for mass cuts of Mcut = 3.04 M (solid line with open circles) and Mcut = 4.15 M (dash‐dotted line with open circles).

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