Optical spectroscopy of (candidate) ultra-compact X-ray binaries
arXiv:astro-ph/0412115 · doi:10.1063/1.2130259
Abstract
We present (preliminary) results of our systematic spectroscopic study of (candidate) ultra-compact X-ray binaries. Most candidates are confirmed and we found the first optical spectra of (pure) carbon-oxygen accretion discs.
arXiv commentTo appear in the proceedings of the conference Interacting Binaries in Cefalu, 2004