Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-02-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
58 pages, 15 figures. To be published in 'The Many Faces of Neutron Stars', R. Buccheri, J. van Paradijs, M.A. Alpar (Eds), Kl
Scientific paper
Galactic accretion driven stellar X-ray sources can be divided into groups in different ways. An important division, which covers almost all known X-ray binaries, can be made according to the mass of the donor star: high-mass X-ray binaries and low-mass X-ray binaries. Another distinction (partially overlapping with the previous one) can be made on the basis of the nature of the accreting object: a strongly magnetized neutron star, a neutron star with a weak magnetic field, or a black hole. In this review I describe the properties of these different types of X-ray binaries, and discuss the mass determinations which are the basis for distinguishing accreting neutron stars from black holes.
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