Neutron Stars and Black Holes in X-Ray Binaries
| dc.creator | van Paradijs, Jan | |
| dc.date | 1998-02-13 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:26:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:26:05Z | |
| dc.description | 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. | |
| dc.description | 58 pages, 15 figures. To be published in 'The Many Faces of Neutron Stars', R. Buccheri, J. van Paradijs, M.A. Alpar (Eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9802177 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9802177 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/12131 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Neutron Stars and Black Holes in X-Ray Binaries | |
| dc.type | text |