Photometric Spectroscopic and IUE Observations of X-Ray Binaries

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Jun 1981

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The Messenger, No.24, P. 13, 1981

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X-ray binaries offer the unique opportunity to study the properties of neutron stars in some detail. In arecent article E. J. Zuiderwijk (THE MESSENGER No. 19, p. 18, 1970) discussed the "Standard Model" of X-ray binaries with massive components, demonstrating the difficulties in lightcurve analysis and mass determination. The model is relatively simple: anormal primary star, which can be observed in visual light, and a neutron star form a binary system. The most important constraint is given by the "Limiting Roche Lobe", a critical surface, which is confining the maximum possible radius of the primary star, The size of this lobe, in units of the separation of the two stars, is dependent only on their mass ratio. Thus the radius of the primary star gives a Iimiting value for the mass ratio.

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