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News on the X-ray emission from hot subdwarf stars [PDF]
Open 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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Binary interaction dominates the evolution of massive stars [PDF]
Science, 2012 The presence of a nearby companion alters the evolution of massive stars in binary systems, leading to phenomena such as stellar mergers, X-ray binaries and gamma-ray bursts.
A. de Koter +11 more
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Ultracompact X-ray binaries with He star companions [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021 ABSTRACT Ultracompact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) are low-mass X-ray binaries with hydrogen-deficient mass donors and ultrashort orbital periods. They have been suggested to be the potential Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) sources in the low-frequency region. Several channels for the formation of UCXBs have been proposed so far.
Bo Wang +7 more
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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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An Optically Discovered Outburst from XTE J1859+226
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Using the Zwicky Transient Facility, in 2021 February we identified the first known outburst of the black hole X-ray transient XTE J1859+226 since its discovery in 1999. The outburst was visible at X-ray, UV, and optical wavelengths for less than 20 days,
Eric C. Bellm +15 more
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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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The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 The launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) on 2021 December 9 has opened a new window in X-ray astronomy. We report here the results of the first IXPE observation of a weakly magnetized neutron star, GS 1826−238, performed on 2022 March ...
Fiamma Capitanio +96 more
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PSR J1953+1844 Probably Being the Descendant of an Ultracompact X-Ray Binary
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 PSR J1953+1844 (i.e., M71E) is a millisecond pulsar in a 53 minute binary orbit discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope. The mass function from pulsar timing is 2.3 × 10 ^−7 M _⊙ .
Z. L. Yang +3 more
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The Binary X-Ray Stars – the Observational Picture [PDF]
Symposium - International Astronomical Union, 1975 When X-ray sources in the galaxy were discovered in 1962 (Giacconi et al., 1962) it was only possible to speculate on their nature, which centered on supernova and cosmic-ray phenomena since these were the only very energetic events known. In particular, the discovery of an X-ray source associated with the Crab Nebula led to the idea that the emission ...
Herbert Gursky, Ethan Schreier
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The 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
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