Hard spectral components in soft X-ray transients

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Oct 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987a%26a...185..155k&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 185, no. 1-2, Oct. 1987, p. 155-159. SERC-supported research.

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Electron Energy, Neutron Stars, Stellar Coronas, Stellar Mass, X Ray Binaries, X Ray Spectra, Black Holes (Astronomy), Boundary Layers, Computational Astrophysics

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The authors show that at low luminosities
(≤1035erg-1) boundary-layer accretion onto a
non-magnetic neutron star is likely to produce an ion-supported corona
around the star. The electron temperature in the corona is
≥108K, and gives rise to a hard X-ray spectrum.

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