Low-Mass X-ray Binaries
arXiv:2206.10053 · doi:10.1007/978-981-16-4544-0_94-1
Abstract
A large fraction of X-ray sources in our Galaxy are low-mass X-ray binaries, containing a black hole or a neutron star accreting from a gravitationally bound low-mass (1 M) companion star. These systems are among the older population of stars and accreting systems in the Galaxy, and typically have long accretion histories. Low-mass X-ray binaries are categorized into various sub-classes based on their observed properties such as X-ray variability and brightness, nature of the companion star and/or the compact object, and binary configuration. In this Chapter, we review the phenomenology of sub-classes of these systems and summarize observational finding regarding their characteristics, populations, and their distribution in the Galaxy.
Invited chapter for Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics (Section Eds. V. Doroshenko, A. Santangelo; Eds. C. Bambi and A. Santangelo, Springer Singapore, expected in 2022)
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