Low Mass X-Ray Binaries
Population synthesis of classical low-mass X-ray binaries in the Galactic Bulge
... Low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) are binaries in which a star with a mass below ∼ 1 ...transfers mass via Roche- lobe overflow to a neutron star or black hole ...
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The secondary stars in cataclysmic variables and low-mass X-ray binaries
... and low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), using the new catalogue of Ritter & Kolb as a starting ...reliable mass determinations of CV secondary stars (10 and 5, respectively, in ...
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A Brief Review for Quasi Periodic Oscillations in Neutron Star Low Mass X Ray Binaries
... (NS) low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), the turbulent flow in accretion disk may show magnetic ...considerable X-ray variability on a wide range of timescales in all ...
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Zhang, Zhongli (2012): Study of populations of low-mass X-ray binaries in elliptical galaxies. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik
... cosmic X-ray background sources ...deep X-ray observations, in the Msec range, to reach the required ...of X-ray binaries located in different environments on our ...
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An X‐Ray Variable Millisecond Pulsar in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae: Closing the Link to Low‐Mass X‐Ray Binaries
... the X-ray eclipse is the apparent sharp increase in the count rate immediately after the X-ray ...the X-ray flux occurs at ¼ 0:4 0:45, ...
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Bowen blend echo‐tomography of low mass X‐ray binaries
... between X-ray and UV/optical light-curves as a function of orbital phase in order to map the reprocessing sites in a binary ...(source) X-ray light curve with a transfer function which encodes ...
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Voss, Rasmus (2007): Populations of low mass X-ray binaries in the galaxies Centaurus A and Andromeda. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik
... between binaries are ignored. As most wide binaries are quickly destroyed, the binary fraction decreases fast and binary- binary encounters should only matter at early ...the binaries (Zahn, ...the ...
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Faint galactic X ray binaries
... persistent low–mass X–ray binaries have been identified (Muno et ...ms X–ray pul- sar HETE ...high–mass X–ray binaries have recently been ...
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Spin period change and the magnetic fields of neutron stars in Be X-ray binaries in the SMC
... X-ray binaries contain a compact star - a white dwarf, neutron star or black hole - and a mass donor ...the mass of their companion. Low mass X-ray ...
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Discovery of a tidal disruption event candidate from the 2XMM catalog
... The source exhibited strong fast variability in both XMM-Newton observations, as shown in Figure 6 [19]. The left panels plot the pn 250 s background-subtracted light curves, and the right panels plot the power density ...
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Optical spectroscopy of the low mass X ray binary GX 9+9
... of low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) has always been to find a signa- ture of the donor star, and thereby constrain the masses of both ...the mass function (see ...the ...
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Time-dependent search for neutrino emission from X-ray binaries with the ANTARES telescope
... X-ray binaries are binary systems composed of a compact object (neutron star (NS) or stellar mass black hole (BH) candidate) and a companion non-degenerate ...the mass of the companion ...
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Neutron Stars and NuSTAR: A Systematic Survey of Neutron Star Masses in High Mass X ray Binaries & Characterization of CdZnTe Detectors for NuSTAR
... The first screening step is to shine a radioactive source like 241 Am on a hybrid and generate an output spectrum. This allows to verify the functioning of the hybrid including noise performance, number of dead pixels, ...
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A Population of Faint Nontransient Low‐Mass Black Hole Binaries
... The WZ Sge-type dwarf novae resemble transient LMBHBs and LMNSBs (Lasota 1996a,b; Kuulkers, Howell & van Paradijs 1996) and it was suggested quite early (van Paradijs & Verbunt 1984; Cannizzo, Ghosh & Wheeler ...
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A Magnetic Model for Low/Hard States Associated with Jets in Black Hole X Ray Binaries
... By analogy with the coronal mass ejection Yuan et al. [43] proposed a MHD model for interpreting the episodic ejections from BHXBs, and GRO J1655-40, XTE J1550- 564 and GRS 1915 + 105 are involved. It turns out ...
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Multiwavelength, Machine Learning, and Parallax Studies of X-ray Binaries in Three Local Group Galaxies
... a low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) with a companion of roughly 1 M should be consumed by its accretor within 100 ...a mass-transferring state much later than what is predicted by peak star ...
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High time resolution optical/X ray cross correlations for X ray binaries : anticorrelations and rapid variability
... Reprocessing has also been demonstrated through the technique of Doppler Tomography for individual spectral lines. The known period of the binary orbit is used to find the phase and velocity amplitude of emission ...
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Accretion in supergiant High Mass X-ray Binaries
... the X M M − Newton and INT EGRAL observations, we [12, MW11] suggested that the wind terminal velocity of the system is relatively, low, of the order of υ ∞ ∼ 500 km s −1 ...
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High time resolution optical/X-ray cross-correlations for X-ray binaries: anticorrelations and rapid variability
... Reprocessing has also been demonstrated through the technique of Doppler Tomography for individual spectral lines. The known period of the binary orbit is used to find the phase and velocity amplitude of emission ...
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A spectroscopic study of high mass X ray binaries
... Cen X-3 is similar to SMC X-1 and LMC X-4, and has been tentatively associated with an anti-correlated pulse-period relationship (Corbet, ...SMC X-1 (chapter 3, this study), this class of ...
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