Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Extremely fast orbital decay of the black hole X-ray binary Nova Muscae
  1991   We present new medium-resolution spectroscopic observations of the black hole
X-ray binary Nova Muscae 1991 taken with X-Shooter spectrograph installed at
the 8.2m-VLT telescope. These observations allow us to measure the time of
inferior conjunction of the secondary star with the black hole in this system
that, together with previous measurements, yield an orbital period decay of
$\dot P=-20.7\pm12.7$ ms yr$^{-1}$ ($-24.5\pm15.1$ $\mu $s per orbital cycle).
This is significantly faster than those previously measured in the other black
hole X-ray binaries A0620-00 and XTE J1118+480. No standard black hole X-ray
binary evolutionary model is able to explain this extremely fast orbital decay.
At this rate, the secondary star would reach the event horizon (as given by the
Schwarzschild radius of about 32 km) in roughly 2.7 Myr. This result has
dramatic implications on the evolution and lifetime of black hole X-ray
binaries.

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