Accretion disks in low-mass X-ray binaries

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Sep 1993

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Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Publications (ISSN 0004-6280), vol. 105, no. 691, p. 961-965.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Accretion Disks, Cataclysmic Variables, Light Curve, Stellar Mass, X Ray Binaries, Astronomical Photometry, Black Holes (Astronomy), Mass Ratios, Neutron Stars

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In this paper we review recent developments in our knowledge of accretion disks in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). We discuss some common behavior between the disks in cataclysmic variables and LMXBs, especially among those systems with high mass ratios. We consider ellipsoidal variability of soft X-ray transients (SXTs: transient LMXBs) in quiescence, and discuss the evidence for transient disk contamination of the light curves of these objects. We then show how optical photometry of SXTs in both outburst and quiescence can place useful constraints on the mass of the compact object in these binaries. Finally we present new results on the accretion disk structures of AC 211 in M15 and X 1916-05. We show that considerable evidence now exists for sizable disk structure displaced about 180 deg from the secondary: the origin of this structure is as yet unknown.

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