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Transient X-ray Sources as Extremely Eccentric Mass-Transfer Binaries with Compact Companions
Jonathan I. Katz, Michael A. Nowak
It has long been suggested that X-ray transients are produced at periastron of stellar-compact object binaries with eccentric orbits. Recoil of matter evaporated from the star by X…
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Triaxial Magnetars as Sources of Fast Radio Bursts
J. I. Katz
Some of the mysterious temporal properties of Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) may be explained if they are produced by dynamically triaxial magnetars. If the bursts are narrowly collimated…