Mass Determination of Massive X-Ray Binaries

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Mar 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982msngr..27...14d&link_type=abstract

The Messenger, No.27, P. 14, 1982

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Massive X-ray binaries consist of anormal component of spectral type 0 or B which is transferring matter to a compact companion, generally a neutron star, with possibly one exception, Cyg X-1, where the compact component could be a black hole. These compact stars have enormous magnetic fields (of the order of 1012 gauss), and extremely large gravities; accreted matter will be accelerated to velocities of half the light velocity, and guided by the field lines to restricted areas near the magnetic poles, the hot spots. These regions acquire in this way temperatures of the order of 107 K, and X-rays are generated. The X-rays are transported outwards as beams, and since the compact objects rotate rapidly, X-rays are observed as pulse-shaped beams.

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