A Search for Quiet Massive X-ray Binaries

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Dec 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aas...20711402m&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, #114.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1347

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Wind accretion models of the X-ray luminosity in massive X-ray binaries (MXRBs) predict a class of "quiet" MXRBs in which the stellar wind is too weak to power a strong X-ray source. The first two candidates systems, HD 14633 and HD 15137, were recently detected. These O star + neutron star systems were ejected from the open cluster NGC 654, but although they both show evidence of a past supernova within the binary system, neither is a known X-ray emitter. These systems provide a new opportunity to examine the ejection mechanisms responsible for the OB runaway stars, and they can also provide key information about the evolution of spun-up, rejuvenated massive stars. We present here preliminary results from a search for other such quiet MXRBs.
MVM is supported by an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship under award AST-0401460.

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