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This is the second in a series of papers associated with cataclysmic variables (CVs) and related objects, formed in a suite of simulations for globular cluster evolution performed with the MOCCA Monte Carlo code. We study the properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-05 Diogo Belloni , Mirek Giersz , Helio J. Rocha-Pinto , Nathan Leigh , Abbas Askar

X-ray imaging and spectroscopy can be used to probe the binary content of globular clusters. Binaries are thought to play a key role in the dynamical evolution of the clusters by serving as an internal source of energy which counters the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Natalie A. Webb , Didier Barret

The features and make up of the population of X-ray sources in Galactic star clusters reflect the properties of the underlying stellar environment. Cluster age, mass, stellar encounter rate, binary frequency, metallicity, and maybe other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Maureen van den Berg

In this first investigation of the MOCCA database with respect to cataclysmic variables, we found that for models with Kroupa initial distributions, considering the standard value of the efficiency of the common-envelope phase adopted in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Diogo Belloni , Mirek Giersz , Abbas Askar , Arkadiusz Hypki

We model the dynamics of test binaries in isotropic, multi-mass models of galactic globular clusters. The evolution of binary orbits through the cluster potentials is modeled, including second order diffusion terms, and probabilities for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steinn Sigurdsson , E. S. Phinney

This article summarizes the basic facts and ideas concerning the formation and evolution of cataclysmic variables (CVs). It is shown why the formation of CVs must involve huge losses of mass and orbital angular momentum, very likely via a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-11 H. Ritter

Cataclysmic variables (CVs) are tracers of dynamical evolution in globular clusters. A significant sample has been found by the relatively shallow \Halpha surveys conducted with HST thus far in just three globulars: NGC 6397 (3), NGC 6752…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonathan E. Grindlay

Improved observations of globular clusters are uncovering a large number of radio pulsars and of X-ray sources. The latter include binaries in which a neutron star or a white dwarf accretes matter from a companion, recycled pulsars, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Verbunt

I review the current status of studies of the X-ray sources in Galactic old open clusters. Cataclysmic variables (CVs), magnetically-active binaries (ABs), and sub-subgiants (SSGs) dominate the X-ray emission of old open clusters.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-28 Maureen van den Berg

In contrast to the field, the binaries in dense stellar systems are frequently not primordial, and could be either dynamically formed or significantly altered from their primordial states. Destruction and formation of binaries occur in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Natalia Ivanova

In dense stellar systems, dynamical interactions between objects lead to frequent formation of exotic stellar objects, unusual binaries, and systems of higher multiplicity. They are especially important for the formation of low mass X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-11 Natalia Ivanova

This paper investigates the formation, populations, and evolutionary paths of UltraLuminous X-ray Sources (ULXs) within Globular Clusters (GCs). ULXs, characterised by their extreme X-ray luminosities, present a challenge to our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-16 Grzegorz Wiktorowicz , Mirek Giersz , Abbas Askar , Arkadiusz Hypki , Lucas Helstrom

Cataclysmic variables (CVs) are the most numerous population among the Galactic objects emitting in hard X-rays. Most probably, they are responsible for the extended hard X-ray emission of the Galactic ridge and the central Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Valery F. Suleimanov , Victor Doroshenko , Klaus Werner

In this third of a series of papers related to cataclysmic variables (CVs) and related objects, we analyse the population of CVs in a set of 12 globular cluster models evolved with the MOCCA Monte Carlo code, for two initial binary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-07 Diogo Belloni , Mónica Zorotovic , Matthias R. Schreiber , Nathan W. C. Leigh , Mirek Giersz , Abbas Askar

Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) are a distinct class of X-ray binaries transferring mass from a donor star to a compact star accretor, a white dwarf. They constitute a laboratory for accretion physics, mechanisms and disk theory together with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-19 S. Balman

Cataclysmic variables (CVs) are compact binary systems in which a white dwarf accretes matter from a Roche-lobe-filling companion star. In this study, we searched for new CVs in the Milky Way in the Chandra Source Catalog v2.0,…

Highly sensitive and precise X-ray imaging from Chandra, combined with the superb spatial resolution of HST optical images, dramatically enhances our empirical understanding of compact binaries such as cataclysmic variables and low mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Bruce Margon , B. Beck-Winchatz , L. Homer , D. Pooley , C. G. Bassa , S. F. Anderson , W. H. G. Lewin , F. Verbunt , A. K. H. Kong , R. M. Plotkin

We present a detailed assessment of the dynamical pathways leading to the coalescence of compact objects in Globular Clusters (GCs) and Short Gamma-Ray Burst (SGRB) production. We consider primordial binaries, dynamically formed binaries…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 William H. Lee , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Glenn van de Ven

We review new Chandra and HST observations of the core collapsed cluster NGC 6397 as a guide to understanding the compact binary (CB) populations in core collapse globulars. New cataclysmic variables (CVs) and main sequence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jonathan E. Grindlay

I review what we know about the donor stars in cataclysmic variables (CVs), focusing particularly on the close link between these binary components and the overall secular evolution of CVs. I begin with a brief overview of the "standard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Christian Knigge