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Population synthesis of X-ray sources at the Galactic center

S. B. Popov, V. M. Lipunov, L. M. Ozernoy, K. A. Postnov, M. E. Prokhorov

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9504066

Abstract

X-ray binary population at the Galactic center is proposed here to form as a result of a starburst, which is synthesized by using the ``Scenario Machine'' code of binary star evolution. For the currently assumed starburst age of 4-7 millions years, our results are consistent with the recent GRANAT X-ray observations of the Galactic center and predict a substantial number of X-ray binaries with black holes.

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