Supersoft X-ray sources: Proceedings of the International Workshop Held in Garching, Germany, 28 February-1 March 1996

Observations with X-ray satellite ROSAT over the past 5 years have established supersoft X-ray sources as a new class of objects in our Galaxy and beyond. Optical follow-up observations have revealed the binary nature of several of them. Recent population synthesis calculations have shown that the n...

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Weitere Verfasser: Greiner, Jochen (HerausgeberIn)
Dokumenttyp: Konferenzschrift
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer 1996
Schriftenreihe:Lecture notes in physics 472
In: Lecture notes in physics (472)

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DOI:10.1007/BFb0102238
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Zusammenfassung:Observations with X-ray satellite ROSAT over the past 5 years have established supersoft X-ray sources as a new class of objects in our Galaxy and beyond. Optical follow-up observations have revealed the binary nature of several of them. Recent population synthesis calculations have shown that the number of such binaries is expected to be considerably larger than those of the common low- and high-mass X-ray binaries. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the many recent observational discoveries and theoretical investigations. It describes relations between supersoft sources and other areas in astrophysics. This volume also comprises a complete catalog of presently known supersoft sources including a comprehensive bibliography of observational results
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ISBN:9783540685128
9783540613909
DOI:10.1007/BFb0102238