Optical spectroscopy of (candidate) ultra-compact X-ray binaries
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We present (preliminary) results of our systematic spectroscopic study of (candidate) ultra-compact X-ray binaries. Most candidates are confirmed and we found the first optical spectra of (pure) carbon-oxygen accretion discs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0412115,
title = {Optical spectroscopy of (candidate) ultra-compact X-ray binaries},
author = {Gijs Nelemans and Peter Jonker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0412115},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
To appear in the proceedings of the conference Interacting Binaries in Cefalu, 2004