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Super-Eddington Accretion in the Formation of Low-Mass X-ray Binaries and Millisecond Pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R. F. Webbink  and
V. Kalogera
R. F. Webbink
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Illinois, 1002 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A.
V. Kalogera
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Illinois, 1002 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A.

Abstract

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Considerations of donor star stability, age, and mass transfer rate show that low-mass X-ray binaries and binary millisecond pulsars with orbital periods longer than a few days must have survived an initial phase of super-Eddington mass transfer. We review the physical arguments leading to this conclusion, and examine its implications for the apparent discrepancy between the death rate for low-mass X-ray binaries and the birth rate of binary millisecond pulsars.

Type
Part 15. Poster Papers
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 163: Accretion Phenomena and Related Outflows , 1997 , pp. 828 - 829
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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