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X-Ray Binaries and Related Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Virginia Trimble
Virginia Trimble*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department University of Maryland College Park MD 20742 USAPhysics Department University of California Irvine CA 92717 USA

Abstract

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Neutron stars and a few black holes in binaries reveal their presence by emitting X-rays when they accrete gas from their companions via a wind or disk. Related objects include SS 433, Geminga, gamma ray bursters, TeV/PeV sources, and the source in CTB 108. Systems with secondaries 8 Mo are the natural descendents of main sequence OB binaries. Those with secondaries ≤ 1 Mo arguably form some other way. These systems display a wealth of structure in both wavelength and time domains, much of which is reasonably well understood. Among the things we would like to know more about are the masses and rotation periods of the neutron stars in the two main kinds of systems.

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