The population of faint transients in the galactic centre

BeppoSAX has detected a population of faint transient Xray sources in the Galactic Centre. I show that a simple irradiated-disc picture gives a consistent fit to the properties of this population, and that it probably consists of low-mass X-ray binaries which have evolved beyond their minimum orbita...

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Main Author: King, A
Format: Conference item
Published: 2001

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