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Magnetic braking (MB) plays an important role in the evolution of close low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). It is also essential to the formation of ultracompact X-ray binaries (UCXBs). There have been lively investigations on the MB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Zhuling Deng , Xiangdong Li

A summary is given of the present state of our knowledge of High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs), their formation and expected future evolution. Among the HMXB-systems that contain neutron stars, only those that have orbital periods upwards of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Edward P. J. van den Heuvel

Binary systems in which a neutron star or black hole accretes material from a high-mass star are known as high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs). This chapter provides a brief introduction to the physics of wind accretion and an observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-08 Francesca M. Fornasini , Vallia Antoniou , Guillaume Dubus

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are thought to originate from low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). The discovery of eclipsing radio MSPs including redbacks and black widows indicates that evaporation of the donor star by the MSP's irradiation takes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-26 Kun Jia , Xiang-Dong Li

Redback millisecond pulsars (hereafter redbacks) are a sub-population of eclipsing millisecond pulsars in close binaries. The formation processes of these systems are not clear. The three pulsars showing transitions between rotation- and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-26 Kun Jia , Xiang-Dong Li

We investigate systematically whether accreting black hole systems are likely to reach global alignment of the black hole spin and its accretion disc with the binary plane. In low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) there is only a modest tendency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Andrew King , Chris Nixon

We use Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations to conduct a population study of the timing properties of accretion-powered neutron star Low Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs), following a model-independent approach that was originally applied to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-18 D. W. Gardenier , P. Uttley

We present a potentially efficient dynamical formation scenario for Low Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs) in the field, focusing on black-hole (BH) LMXBs. In this formation channel LMXBs are formed from wide binaries $(>1000$ AU) with a BH…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Erez Michaely , Hagai B. Perets

Symbiotic X-ray binaries (SyXBs) comprise a rare class of low-mass X-ray binaries. We study the Galactic SyXBs, which we consider as detached binaries composed of low-mass giants and wind-fed neutron star companions, by simulation of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. -L. Lu , C. -H. Zhu , K. A. Postnov , L. R. Yungelson , A. G. Kuranov , N. Wang

The ultra-compact Low Mass X-ray Binary (LMXB) X1916-053, composed of a neutron star and a semi-degenerated white dwarf, exhibits periodic X-ray dips with variable width and depth. We have developed new methods to parameterize the dip to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chin-Ping Hu , Yi Chou , Yi-Ying Chung

Low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) have been studied in the Galaxy since the beginning of X-ray astronomy. A lot has been learned about these bright X-ray sources, but significant questions are still open. These questions are related to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Fabbiano

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

I review the evolutionary connection between low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) and pulsars with binary companions (bPSRs) from a stellar binary evolution perspective. I focus on the evolution of stellar binaries with end-states consisting of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Christopher J. Deloye

We study the evolution of Low Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs) and of millisecond binary radio pulsars (MSPs), with numerical simulations that keep into account the evolution of the companion, of the binary system and of the neutron star.…

We propose a physically motivated and self-consistent prescription for the modeling of transient neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) properties, such as duty cycle (DC), outburst duration and recurrence time. We apply this…

Magnetic braking (MB) mechanism plays a vital role throughout the evolution of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). Considering the standard MB prescription, the initial orbital periods of LMXBs that can evolve into binary millisecond pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Xing-Peng Yang , Wen-Cong Chen

There is accumulating evidence for mass ejection in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) driven by radio pulsar activity during X-ray quiescence. In this paper we consider the condition for mass ejection by comparing the radiation pressure from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Lei Fu , Xiang-Dong Li

Detached eclipsing binary stars (dEBs) are a key source of data on fundamental stellar parameters. While there is a vast source of candidate systems in the light curve databases of survey missions such as Kepler and TESS, published…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Stephen Overall , John Southworth

Ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) are low-mass X-ray binaries with hydrogen-deficient mass-donors and ultra-short orbital periods. They have been suggested to be the potential Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) sources in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-09 Bo Wang , Wencong Chen , Dongdong Liu , Hailiang Chen , Chengyuan Wu , Wenshi Tang , Yunlang Guo , Zhanwen Han

In the Galaxy, close binaries with compact objects are important low-frequency gravitational wave (GW) sources. As potential low-frequency GW sources, neutron star/white dwarf (WD) ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) have been investigated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Ke Qin , Long Jiang , Wen-Cong Chen