TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewin,Walter H.G.
AU  - Paradijs,J.van
AU  - Heuvel,Edward Peter Jacobus van den
TI  - X-ray binaries
T2  - Cambridge astrophysics series
SN  - 0521416841
AV  - QB830 .L49 1994
U1  - 523.8/41 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - X-ray binaries
N1  - 1; The properties of X-ray binaries; N. E. White, F. Nagase and A. N. Parmar --; 2; Optical and ultraviolet observations of X-ray binaries; J. van Paradijs and J. E. McClintock --; 3; Black-hole binaries; Y. Tanaka and W. H. G. Lewin --; 4; X-ray bursts; Walter H. G. Lewin, Jan Van Paradijs and Ronald E. Taam --; 5; Millisecond pulsars; D. Bhattacharya --; 6; Rapid aperiodic variability in X-ray binaries; M. van der Klis --; 7; Radio properties of X-ray binaries; R. M. Hjellming and X. Han --; 8; Cataclysmic variable stars; France Anne-Dominic Cordova --; 9; Normal galaxies and their X-ray binary populations; G. Fabbiano --; 10; Accretion in close binaries; Andrew King --; 11; Formation and evolution of neutron stars and black holes in binaries; F. Verbunt and E. P. J. van den Heuvel --; 12; The magnetic fields of neutron stars and their evolution; D. Bhattacharya and G. Srinivasan --; 13; Cosmic gamma-ray bursts; K. Hurley --; 14; A catalogue of X-ray binaries; Jan van Paradijs --; 15; A compilation of cataclysmic binaries with known or suspected orbital periods; Hans Ritter and Ulrich Kolb
N2  - X-ray binaries are some of the most varied and perplexing systems known to astronomers. The compact object, which accretes mass from its companion star, may be a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole, whereas the donor star can be a 'normal' star or a white dwarf. The various combinations differ widely in their behaviour. This timely volume provides a unique and up-to-date reference of our knowledge of all of them; This long awaited review provides graduate students and researchers with the standard reference on X-ray binaries for many years to come
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