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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.

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@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