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The empirically found universal power-law form of the X-ray luminosity function for a population of high-mass X-ray binaries in galaxies can be explained by the fundamental mass-luminosity and mass-radius relations for massive stars.
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Translated from pis’ma v Astronomicheski\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l}\) Zhurnal, vol. 29, No. 6, 2003, pp. 424–425.
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Postnov, K.A. The universal luminosity function of binary X-ray sources in galaxies. Astron. Lett. 29, 372–373 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1579783
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