Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010head...11.0101g&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #11, #1.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.652
Physics
Scientific paper
Although a reasonably detailed theoretical understanding of the physics of thermonuclear (type-I) X-ray bursts emerged some decades ago, much of the behaviour of the known bursting systems remains poorly understood. Recent theoretical and observational work has addressed phenomena including short recurrence time bursts, which likely result from ignition of unburnt fuel from the previous event; radius-expansion bursts, and the possibility of heavy element ejection; and the role of the crust in determining the ignition conditions in helium bursts. These events also offer opportunities for constraining the poorly-known neutron star equation of state, and recent work has resulted in measurements of gravitational redshift as well as neutron star masses and radii. I will present a brief review of several of these approaches and summarise recent progress.
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