Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2brh9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-28T16:58:57.083Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Detection of the progenitors of Be X-ray Binaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 December 2019

Douglas Gies
Affiliation:
CHARA, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 5060, Atlanta, GA 30302-5060, USA emails: [email protected], [email protected]
Luqian Wang
Affiliation:
CHARA, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 5060, Atlanta, GA 30302-5060, USA emails: [email protected], [email protected]
Geraldine Peters
Affiliation:
Space Sciences Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1341, USA email: [email protected]
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

A recent survey of the far-ultraviolet spectra of 264 B-emission line stars has revealed 16 systems with hot companions that are the stripped down remains of a former mass donor star. Some of these will probably become Be + neutron star X-ray binaries in the future. The actual numbers of such systems may be large, because the detected systems have companions that occupy the brief and bright, He-shell burning stage of evolution.

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2019 

References

Chojnowski, S.D., Labadie-Bartz, J., Rivinius, T., Gies, D., Panoglou, D., Borges Fernandes, M., Wisniewski, J. P., Whelan, D. G., Mennickent, R. E., McMillan, R., Dembicky, J. M., Gray, C., Rudyk, T., Stringfellow, G. S., Lester, K., Hasselquist, S., Zharikov, S., Levenhagen, R., Souza, T., Leister, N., Stassun, K., Siverd, R. J., & Majewski, S. R. 2018 ApJ, 865, 76 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Matson, R. A., Gies, D. R., Guo, Z., Quinn, S. N., Buchhave, L. A., Latham, D. W., Howell, S. B., & Rowe, J. F. 2015, ApJ, 806, 155 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mourard, D., Monnier, J. D., Meilland, A., Gies, D., Millour, F., Benisty, M., Che, X., Grundstrom, E. D., Ligi, R., Schaefer, G., Baron, F., Kraus, S., Zhao, M., Pedretti, E., Berio, P., Clausse, J. M., Nardetto, N., Perraut, K., Spang, A., Stee, P., Tallon-Bosc, I., McAlister, H., ten Brummelaar, T., Ridgway, S. T., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., Turner, N., & Farrington, C. 2015, A&A, 577, A51 Google Scholar
Peters, G. J., Gies, D. R., Grundstrom, E. D., & McSwain, M. V. 2008, ApJ, 686, 1280 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Peters, G. J., Pewett, T. D., Gies, D. R., Touhami, Y. N., & Grundstrom, E. D. 2013, ApJ, 765, 2 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Peters, G. J., Wang, L., Gies, D. R., & Grundstrom, E. D. 2016, ApJ, 828, 47 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pols, O. R., Cote, J., Waters, L. B. F. M., & Heise, J. 1991, A&A, 241, 419 Google Scholar
Reig, P. 2011, Ap&SS, 332, 1 Google Scholar
Rivinius, T., Carciofi, A. C., & Martayan, C. 2013, A&AR, 21, 69 Google Scholar
Schootemeijer, A., Götberg, Y., de Mink, S. E., Gies, D., & Zapartas, E. 2018, A&A, 615, A30 Google Scholar
Wang, L., Gies, D. R., & Peters, G. J. 2017, ApJ, 843, 60 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wang, L., Gies, D. R., & Peters, G. J. 2018, ApJ, 853, 156 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yudin, R. V. 2001, A&A, 368, 912 Google Scholar