High mass X-ray binaries: Beacons in a stormy universe
| Autor: | Douglas Gies |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Space and Planetary Science Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 0103 physical sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics 010303 astronomy & astrophysics 01 natural sciences Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 14:489-499 |
| ISSN: | 1743-9221 1743-9213 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1743921319002369 |
| Popis: | The discovery of gravity waves from the mergers of black hole binaries has focused the astronomical community on the high mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) as the potential progenitors of close pairs of compact stars. This symposium gathered experts in observational and theoretical work for a very timely review of our understanding of the processes that drive the X-ray luminosity of the diverse kinds of binaries and what evolutionary stages are revealed in the observed cases. Here I offer a condensed summary of some of the results about massive star properties, the observational categories of HMXBs, their accretion processes, their numbers in the Milky Way and other galaxies, and how they may be related to the compact binaries that merge in a burst of gravity waves. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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