X-ray Binaries
Faint galactic X ray binaries
... low–mass X–ray binaries relies on the occurrence of photospheric radius expansion thermonuclear explosions on the surface of low magnetic field accreting neutron stars (so called type I ...
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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 . 5 M transfers mass via Roche- lobe overflow to a neutron star or black hole companion (e.g., van den Heuvel ...
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Polarimetric observations of the innermost regions of relativistic jets in X-ray binaries
... In X-ray binaries, optically thin synchrotron emission from the compact jets resides at infrared–optical ...some X-ray ...Cyg X–1, the origin of the γ-ray, ...
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Multiwavelength, Machine Learning, and Parallax Studies of X-ray Binaries in Three Local Group Galaxies
... One of the first observations made about XRBs was that they are not uniformly distributed throughout the Milky Way. An examination of the distribution of Milky Way’s X-ray binaries shows that they ...
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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 ...mass X-ray binaries (LMXB) contain a companion comparable in mass to the ...
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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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Grimm, Hans-Jakob (2003): X-ray binaries in the Milky Way and other galaxies. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik
... of X-ray sources per unit mass is ∼ 100 times higher in the globular clusters than in the Galactic disk and 12 out of 104 LMXBs in our sample are globular cluster ...of X-ray ...of ...
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A Brief Review for Quasi Periodic Oscillations in Neutron Star Low Mass X Ray Binaries
... 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 wavelengths, and down to ...
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The secondary stars in cataclysmic variables and low-mass X-ray binaries
... We critically re-examine the available data on the spectral types, masses and radii of the secondary stars in cataclysmic variables (CVs) and low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), using the new catalogue ...
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Time-dependent search for neutrino emission from X-ray binaries with the ANTARES telescope
... of X-ray binaries exhibiting outburst periods in their light ...hard X-ray ...hard X-ray outbursts (usually produced by both synchrotron and inverse Compton mechanisms) ...
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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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Optical spectroscopy of (candidate) ultracompact X ray binaries : constraints on the composition of the donor stars
... ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) obtained with the ESO VLT and Gemini-North ...2003 X-ray outburst and do not confirm the detection of Hα emission as was claimed in the ...
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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
... of X-ray sources in other galaxies, and ROSAT and ASCA expanded the knowledge, it was first with Chandra and XMM-Newton that it became possible to study in detail the properties of the X-ray ...
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A Magnetic Model for Low/Hard States Associated with Jets in Black Hole X Ray Binaries
... Disk-corona model seems to be supported by a number of recent observations. For example, XMM-Newton ob- servations of GX 339-4 show that a broad iron line together with a dim, hot thermal component was present in its ...
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Advection‐Dominated Accretion and the Spectral States of Black Hole X‐Ray Binaries: Application to Nova Muscae 1991
... (Tanaka & Shibazaki 1996). Intermediate state: Recently, a third state has been identified (Ebisawa et al. 1994, hereafter E94; Mendez & van der Klis 1997; Belloni et al. 1996), referred to sometimes as the ...
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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
... both X and Y directions. We measured the X and Y profiles of the beam with a knife edge ...the X-rays coming from the slit, then move a knife edge to progressively occult greater fractions of the ...
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High time resolution optical/X-ray cross-correlations for X-ray binaries: anticorrelations and rapid variability
... the X-ray light curve reaching us is the same as that ‘seen’ by the material which is producing the optical light reaching ...an X-ray burst, optical emission by reprocessing is clearly ...
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High time resolution optical/X ray cross correlations for X ray binaries : anticorrelations and rapid variability
... Not all of the observations show the typical CCF form described above. In a number of observations, the level of noise, predominantly Poissonian (with some contribution from, for instance, seeing and transparency ...
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Accretion in supergiant High Mass X-ray Binaries
... hard X-ray variability of Vela X-1 have revealed a rich ...the X-ray variability of Vela X-1 with a log-normal distribution, interpreted in the context of a clumpy stellar wind ...
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A spectroscopic study of high mass X ray binaries
... The polar temperature of the primary was fixed at 30000 K, and the star was assumed to fill its Roche-lobe, since there is no overwhelming evidence against this simplest case model. The system inclination was fixed a,t i ...
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