X-ray luminosity function of high-mass X-ray binaries: Studying the signatures of different physical processes using detailed binary evolution calculations

[Context] Many physical processes taking place during the evolution of binary stellar systems remain poorly understood. The ever-expanding observational sample of X-ray binaries (XRBs) makes them excellent laboratories for constraining binary evolution theory. Such constraints and useful insights ca...

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Autores: Misra, Devina, Kovlakas, Konstantinos, Fragos, Tassos, Lazzarini, Margaret, Bavera, Simone S., Lehmer, Bret D., Zezas, Andreas, Zapartas, Emmanouil, Xing, Zepei, Andrews, Jeff J., Dotter, Aaron, Rocha, Kyle A., Srivastava, Philipp M., Sun, Meng
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/337588
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/337588
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:X-rays: binaries
Accretion
Accretion disks
Stars: neutron
Stars: black holes
Binaries: general
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Sumario:[Context] Many physical processes taking place during the evolution of binary stellar systems remain poorly understood. The ever-expanding observational sample of X-ray binaries (XRBs) makes them excellent laboratories for constraining binary evolution theory. Such constraints and useful insights can be obtained by studying the effects of various physical assumptions on synthetic X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) and comparing them with observed XLFs.