X-ray Binary Stars

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke1631c&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 1631. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Stars, Binary Stars

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X-ray binary stars are luminous (˜1036-38 erg s-1) x-ray sources that consist of a neutron star or black hole compact object accreting material from a close (usually ≤1R&sun;) orbiting companion star which, in most cases, has properties similar to those of normal main sequence stars. Such x-ray binaries are rare (only ˜200 are present in our Galaxy and are distributed in the Galactic Plane, the Gal...

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