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Low Luminosity Globular Cluster X-Ray Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Paul Hertz
Paul Hertz*
Affiliation:
Naval Research Laboratory

Abstract

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Two classes of globular cluster X-ray sources are known. Each consists of compact objects accreting material from a close binary companion. The brighter class has a neutron star primary, and the low luminosity class has a white dwarf primary. These sources formed by tidal capture of the compact object by a main sequence dwarf in the core of the globular cluster. Their presence and number has implications on the end points of stellar evolution in globular clusters and on the formation of binaries in cluster cores.

Type
Chapter X. Poster Papers on Formation and Evolution of Globular Clusters
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 126: The Harlow-Shapley Symposium on Globular Cluster Systems in Galaxies , 1988 , pp. 685 - 686
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1988