Bowen fluorescence from companion stars in X-ray binaries
This paper will review a new technique of detecting companion stars in LMXBs and X-ray transients in outburst using the Bowen fluorescence NIII lines at 4634-4640. These lines are very eficiently reprocessed in the atmospheres of the companion stars and, thereby, provide estimates of the K velocitie...
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2004
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