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News on the X-ray emission from hot subdwarf stars [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Astronomy, 2017
In latest years, the high sensitivity of the instruments on-board the XMM-Newton and Chandra satellites allowed us to explore the properties of the X-ray emission from hot subdwarf stars.
Palombara Nicola La, Mereghetti Sandro
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Adiabatic Mass Loss in Binary Stars. V. Effects of Metallicity and Nonconservative Mass Transfer—Application in High Mass X-Ray Binaries [PDF]

open access: goldThe Astrophysical Journal
Binary stars are responsible for many unusual astrophysical phenomena, including some important explosive cosmic events. The stability criteria for rapid mass transfer and common-envelope evolution are fundamental to binary star evolution. They determine
Hongwei Ge   +8 more
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Spectral Energy Distributions of Southern Binary X-Ray Sources

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2023
The rapid variability of X-ray binaries (XRBs) produces a wide range of X-ray states that are linked to activity across the electromagnetic spectrum. It is particularly challenging to study a sample of sources large enough to include all types in their ...
John M. Dickey   +7 more
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Clumpy Wind Studies and the Nondetection of a Cyclotron Line in OAO 1657–415

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
Winds of massive stars are suspected to be inhomogeneous (or clumpy), which biases the measures of their mass-loss rates. In high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), the compact object can be used as an orbiting X-ray point source to probe the wind and ...
Pragati Pradhan   +13 more
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The Spin-down Accretion Regime of Galactic Ultraluminous X-Ray Pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
The relatively high fluxes of the Galactic ultraluminous X-ray pulsar Swift J0243 allow a detailed study of its spin-down regime in the quiescent state for the first time.
Jiren Liu, Long Ji, Mingyu Ge
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Multiwavelength Characterization of the High-mass X-Ray Binary Population of M33

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
We present multiwavelength characterization of 65 high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) candidates in M33. We use the Chandra ACIS survey of M33 (ChASeM33) catalog to select hard X-ray point sources that are spatially coincident with UV-bright point-source ...
Margaret Lazzarini   +14 more
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X-rays from Hot Subdwarfs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Thanks to the high sensitivity of the instruments on board the XMM-Newton and Chandra satellites, it has become possible to explore the properties of the X-ray emission from hot subdwarfs.
La Palombara, Nicola, Mereghetti, Sandro
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A dozen colliding wind X-ray binaries in the star cluster R136 in the 30Doradus region [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
We analyzed archival Chandra X-ray observations of the central portion of the 30 Doradus region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The image contains 20 X-ray point sources with luminosities between $5 \times 10^{32}$ and $2 \times 10^{35}$ erg s$^{-1}$ (0.2
Bosch G.   +21 more
core   +13 more sources

Unveiling Properties of the Nonthermal X-Ray Production in the Gamma-Ray Binary LS 5039 Using the Long-term Pattern of Its Fast X-Ray Variability

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
Gamma-ray binary systems, a subclass of high-mass X-ray binaries, show nonthermal emissions from radio to TeV. While efficient electron acceleration is considered to take place in them, the nature of the acceleration mechanism and the physical ...
Hiroki Yoneda   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

A NICER Viewing Angle on the Accretion Stream of Vela X-1

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
Vela X-1 is the archetypal eclipsing high-mass X-ray binary, composed of a neutron star (NS) accreting the B-star wind. It was observed by nearly all X-ray observatories, often multiple times, featuring a rich spectrum of variable emission lines. However,
Roi Rahin, Ehud Behar
doaj   +1 more source

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