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Cataclysmic Variables and Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries pp 61–77Cite as

Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries

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Low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXB’s) are luminous X-ray sources which are composed of a late-type optical companion (M ≲ 1 M⊙) and a neutron star (or possibly a black hole). They are often referred to somewhat interchangeably as galactic bulge or Population II sources, or as Sco-like sources after the historical archetype of the group Sco X-1. A schematic of one of the best-studied systems, 4U1626-67, is shown superimposed (to scale) on a photograph of the sun’s disk in Figure 1. This is the smallest known LMXB; the optical companion is slightly larger than the sunspot group and the bow-tie shaped accretion disk is the same size as Saturn’s ring system.

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McClintock, J.E., Rappaport, S.A. (1985). Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries. In: Lamb, D.Q., Patterson, J. (eds) Cataclysmic Variables and Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 113. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5319-2_8

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