X-ray Binaries

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Paperback | 17 March 1997

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X-ray binaries are some of the most varied and perplexing systems known to astronomers. The compact object which accretes mass from its companion star may be a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole, whereas the donor star can be a 'normal' star or a white dwarf. The various combinations differ widely in their behaviour, and this timely volume provides a unique reference of our knowledge to date of all of them. Fifteen specially written chapters by a team of the world's foremost researchers in the field explore all aspects of the X-ray binaries. They cover the X-ray, ultraviolet, optical and radio properties of these violent systems and address key issues such as: how were these systems formed, and what will be their fate; how can we understand X-ray bursts, and how the quasi-periodic oscillations; what is the connection between millisecond radio pulsars and low-mass X-ray binaries; and how does the magnetic field of a neutron star decay? This long awaited review provides graduate students and researchers with the standard reference on X-ray binaries for many years to come.

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Preface
The properties of X-ray binaries
Optical and ultraviolet observations of X-ray binaries
Black-hole binaries
X-ray bursts
Millisecond pulsars
Rapid aperiodic variability in binaries
Radio properties of X-ray binaries
Cataclysmic variable stars France
Normal galaxies and their X-ray binary populations
Accretion in close binaries
Formation and evolution of neutron stars and black holes in binaries
The magnetic fields of neutron stars and their evolution
Cosmic gamma-ray bursts
A catalogue of X-ray binaries
A compilation of cataclysmic binaries with known or suspected orbital periods
References
Index
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