X-Ray Binaries and Recycled Pulsars

✍ Scribed by A. N. Parmar (auth.), E. P. J. van den Heuvel, S. A. Rappaport (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 544
• Series: NATO ASI Series 377
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The motivation for the Workshop on which this book is based was the discovery in recent years of a large number of binary and millisecond radio pulsars, in the galactic disk as well as in globular star clusters, the oldest stellar systems in our galaxy. These discoveries have revolutionized our thinking on many aspects concerning the interior structure and evolution of neutron stars, and have revived the interest in the study of neutron star physics in general. In this book some three dozen of the world's experts in the field of radio pulsars, X-ray binaries, stellar evolution, neutron star interoirs and stellar dynamics review the latest observational discoveries as well as the current theoretical thinking on the formation and physics of binary X-ray sources and of the binary and millisecond pulsars.
These include discoveries such as that of the eleven millisecond pulsars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, the relativistic effects in the new double neutron star system PSR 1534+12 and spectacular results from Germany's ROSAT X-Ray Observatory.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Orbital Periods of Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries....Pages 5-18
ROSAT — Early Results....Pages 19-26
Black Holes in Binary Systems....Pages 27-36
Recent Results from Ginga on X-Ray Binaries: Selected Topics....Pages 37-48
Z and Atoll Sources as a Clue to the Evolution of Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries....Pages 49-59
X-ray Diagnostics of Accretion Disks....Pages 61-74
Sight: A Scintillation Imaging Gas-Filled Hard X-ray Telescope....Pages 75-75
Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters....Pages 79-86
Recent Observations of Recycled Pulsars....Pages 87-92
Discovery of Two Millisecond Pulsars at High Galactic Latitudes....Pages 93-98
Millisecond Pulsars and Quiescent LMXBS....Pages 99-104
Continuum Observations of Recycled Pulsars....Pages 105-113
Millisecond Pulsar Spectra....Pages 115-119
Searching for Pulsars in Globular Clusters : The Parkes/Jodrell Bank Surveys....Pages 121-129
Discovery and Timing of Radio Pulsars in Globular Clusters M13 and M15....Pages 131-145
A New Pulsar — Supernova Remnant Association....Pages 149-153
New Pulsar Proper Motion Results from Jodrell Bank....Pages 155-160
The Evolution of the Optical Remnant of Kepler’s SN....Pages 161-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Accretion Induced Collapse....Pages 167-187
Accretion-Induced Collapse of White Dwarfs....Pages 189-205
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Some Problems in the Theory of Isolated Pulsars....Pages 207-213
Relativistic Shock Waves and the Excitation of Plerions....Pages 215-228
Neutrino Driven Neutron Star Formation....Pages 229-229
Formation and Evolution of Neutron Star Binaries....Pages 233-256
From Low-Mass X-ray Binaries to Binary and Millisecond Pulsars....Pages 257-268
Common Envelope Evolution and Formation of Cataclysmic Variables and Low-Mass X-ray Binaries....Pages 269-280
The Common Envelope Evolution of Massive Stars....Pages 281-291
The Evolution of Her X-1 and Why Her X-1 Like Systems are Very Rare....Pages 293-309
Collisions Between a White Dwarf and a Main-Sequence Star....Pages 311-315
New Directions in Globular Cluster Modeling....Pages 317-348
Statistics of Pulsars in Globular Clusters....Pages 349-364
CVs in Globular Clusters: Clues to Compact Binary Production....Pages 365-373
Evaporation of Companions in VLMXBs and in Binary Millisecond Pulsars....Pages 375-386
Radiation-Driven Evolution of Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries and the Formation of Millisecond Pulsars....Pages 387-399
A New Mechanism for Angular Momentum Loss in Very-Low-Mass X-ray Binaries and Binary Millisecond Pulsars....Pages 401-412
X-ray Dippers, Eclipsing Pulsars and Three-Dimensional Orbits....Pages 413-424
From Millisecond Pulsars to Low Mass X-ray Binaries....Pages 425-436
A Determination of the Radio-Luminosity Function and Relative Number of Globular Cluster Pulsars....Pages 437-442
Pulsar Velocities and Their Origins....Pages 445-452
Statistical Studies of the Local Pulsar Population....Pages 453-463
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Neutron Star Structure and Superfluidity: A 1991 Perspective....Pages 467-471
Magnetic Field Evolution from Neutron Star Crust Breaking....Pages 473-484
Diagnostics of Disk-Magnetosphere Interaction in Neutron Star Binaries....Pages 487-510
Quasi Periodic Oscillations and Sound....Pages 511-517
“Experimental” Discovery of a Tilt Instability in Standard Accretion Disks Around Luminous X-ray Sources....Pages 519-525
6 HZ Quasi-Periodic Oscillations from Low-Mass X-ray Binaries: The Sound of an Accretion Disk?....Pages 527-535
Magnetic Flares Near Black Holes....Pages 537-537
Front Matter....Pages 539-539
Concluding Remarks....Pages 541-547
Back Matter....Pages 549-566

✦ Subjects

Astrophysics and Astroparticles