Spectral Energy Distributions of Southern Binary X-Ray Sources
The 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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Magnetic Braking with MESA Evolutionary Models in the Single Star and Low-mass X-Ray Binary Regimes [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal, 2022 Magnetic braking has a prominent role in driving the evolution of close low-mass binary systems and heavily influences the rotation rates of low-mass F- and later-type stars with convective envelopes. Several possible prescriptions that describe magnetic
S. Gossage, V. Kalogera, Meng Sun
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Clumpy Wind Studies and the Nondetection of a Cyclotron Line in OAO 1657–415
The 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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High-Mass X-ray binary: Classification, Formation, and Evolution
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2021 A high mass X-ray binary is a binary system consisting of an accreting neutron star or black hole and an early-type star with more than 10 solar masses.
Chengzhuo Tan
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Do High-spin High-mass X-Ray Binaries Contribute to the Population of Merging Binary Black Holes? [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2022 Gravitational-wave observations of binary black hole (BBH) systems point to black hole spin magnitudes being relatively low. These measurements appear in tension with high spin measurements for high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs).
Monica Gallegos-Garcia +4 more
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Characteristics and evolution of Be-type high mass X-ray binaries as potential Ultraluminous X-ray Sources [PDF]
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022 Some ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) exhibit X-ray pulses, and their central sources are thought to be neutron stars. It has also been suggested that some are transient sources with Be-type donors. In this study, we use the mass accretion model of a
S. Karino
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Evolution of eccentric high-mass X-ray binaries. The case of GX 301-2 [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 The formation of neutron stars is associated with powerful astrophysical transients such as supernovae. In many cases, asymmetries in the supernova explosions are thought to be responsible for the large observed velocities of neutron stars.
A. Bunzel +3 more
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Constraining the properties of dense neutron star cores: The case of the low-mass X-ray binary HETE J1900.1–2455 [PDF]
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021 Measuring the time evolution of the effective surface temperature of neutron stars can provide invaluable information on the properties of their dense cores.
N. Degenaar +5 more
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Calibrating X-Ray Binary Luminosity Functions via Optical Reconnaissance. II. The High-mass XLF and Globular Cluster Population of X-Ray Binaries in the Low Star-forming Spiral M81 [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal, 2022 We characterize the optical counterparts to the compact X-ray source population within the nearby spiral galaxy M81 using multiband Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging data.
Q. Hunt +4 more
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Are There Magnetars in High-mass X-Ray Binaries? [PDF]
Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021 Magnetars form a special population of neutron stars with strong magnetic fields and long spin periods. About 30 magnetars and magnetar candidates known currently are probably isolated, but the possibility that magnetars are in binaries has not been ...
K. Xu +6 more
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