Essays about: "X-ray binaries"
Found 5 essays containing the words X-ray binaries.
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1. Black Hole Dynamics in Stellar Clusters
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för astronomi och teoretisk fysik - Genomgår omorganisation; Lunds universitet/Astronomi - Genomgår omorganisationAbstract : Star clusters can harbour many exotic objects, including black holes (BHs), X-ray binaries and blue straggler stars. In dense stellar environments like globular clusters (GCs), two-body relaxation drives their dynamical evolution, where gravitational interactions between stars strive to equalize their kinetic energy in the cluster. READ MORE
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2. Simulating and Testing the Polarimetric Response of the X-ray Polarimetry Telescope XL-Calibur
University essay from KTH/FysikAbstract : X-ray polarimetry, the study of the polarisation of X-ray light, is a powerful and rapidly developing tool for astrophysics, which promises to help answer outstanding questions about the physics of extreme objects such as pulsars, X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei. The balloon-borne telescope XL-Calibur will be the first instrument to study the polarisation of hard X-rays (with energies between 10 and 100 keV) in detail, correlating with the soft X-ray observations of IXPE to provide further tests of polarisation-dependent x-ray emission models in extreme objects. READ MORE
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3. Chaos in Stellar Dynamics - Outcomes of Binary-Single interactions in Globular Clusters
University essay from Lunds universitet/Astronomi - Genomgår omorganisation; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för astronomi och teoretisk fysik - Genomgår omorganisationAbstract : Gravitational encounters between a single star and a binary system can frequently occur in the cores of dense stellar systems like globular clusters. These three-body scattering encounters can lead to a variety of outcomes since the energy of the binary components can be exchanged with the interacting single star. READ MORE
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4. Investigating super-Eddington accretion flows in Ultraluminous X-ray sources
University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/RymdteknikAbstract : It is now widely known that most of the large galaxies we observe (e.g. the Milky Way) host in their center a supermassive black hole ($10^{6}-10^{9}$ $M_\odot$). READ MORE
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5. Investigating Black Hole Kicks
University essay from Lunds universitet/Astronomi - Genomgår omorganisationAbstract : It has been known for some time that neutron stars receive kicks (so-called natal kicks) when they are formed in core-collapse supernovae. Whether black holes receive these kicks too is still a matter of debate. READ MORE
