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Observations of Low Mass X-Ray Binaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Alan P. Smale
Alan P. Smale*
Affiliation:
USRA Research Scientist, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, Code 668, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA, [email protected]

Abstract

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In this paper I review the properties and behavior of low-mass X-ray binary systems (LMXBs) that contain neutron stars (NS), concentrating on the Galactic bulge sources and bursters. I describe the observed characteristics of LMXBs including their light curves, spectra, eclipses, dips, bursts, flares, pulsations, QPO, long-term periodicities and orbital period changes, and explain how fast timing results and the distinction between ‘Z’ and ‘atoll’-type sources provide the key to a unified model of LMXB behavior.

Type
X-Ray Binaries
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 158: Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects , 1996 , pp. 349 - 358
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996

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