Authors
Peter Kretschmar, Felix Fürst, Lara Sidoli, Enrico Bozzo, Julia Alfonso-Garzón, Arash Bodaghee, Sylvain Chaty, Masha Chernyakova, Carlo Ferrigno, Antonios Manousakis, Ignacio Negueruela, Konstantin Postnov, Adamantia Paizis, Pablo Reig, José Joaquín Rodes-Roca, Sergey Tsygankov, Antony J Bird, Matthias Bissinger né Kühnel, Pere Blay, Isabel Caballero, Malcolm J Coe, Albert Domingo, Victor Doroshenko, Lorenzo Ducci, Maurizio Falanga, Sergei A Grebenev, Victoria Grinberg, Paul Hemphill, Ingo Kreykenbohm, Sonja Kreykenbohm né Fritz, Jian Li, Alexander A Lutovinov, Silvia Martínez-Núñez, J Miguel Mas-Hesse, Nicola Masetti, Vanessa A McBride, Andrii Neronov, Katja Pottschmidt, Jérôme Rodriguez, Patrizia Romano, Richard E Rothschild, Andrea Santangelo, Vito Sguera, Rüdiger Staubert, John A Tomsick, José Miguel Torrejón, Diego F Torres, Roland Walter, Jörn Wilms, Colleen A Wilson-Hodge, Shu Zhang
Publication date
2019/12/1
Source
New Astronomy Reviews
Volume
86
Pages
101546
Publisher
North-Holland
Description
High mass X-ray binaries are among the brightest X-ray sources in the Milky Way, as well as in nearby Galaxies. Thanks to their highly variable emissions and complex phenomenology, they have attracted the interest of the high energy astrophysical community since the dawn of X-ray Astronomy. In more recent years, they have challenged our comprehension of physical processes in many more energy bands, ranging from the infrared to very high energies.
In this review, we provide a broad but concise summary of the physical processes dominating the emission from high mass X-ray binaries across virtually the whole electromagnetic spectrum. These comprise the interaction of stellar winds with the high gravitational and magnetic fields of compact objects, the behaviour of matter under extreme magnetic and gravity conditions, and the perturbation of the massive star evolutionary processes by presence in a binary …
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