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Revisiting the archetypical wind accretor Vela X-1 in depth -- A case study of a well-known X-ray binary and the limits of our knowledge
Peter Kretschmar, Ileyk El Mellah, Silvia Martínez-Núñez +9
Context: Vela X-1 is one of the best studied X-ray binaries. Frequently though, specific values for its parameters have been used in subsequent studies without considering alternat…
PG 1610062: a runaway B star challenging classical ejection mechanisms
Andreas Irrgang, Stephan Geier, Ulrich Heber +2
Hypervelocity stars are rare objects, mostly main-sequence (MS) B stars, traveling so fast that they will eventually escape from the Milky Way. Recently, it has been shown that the…
The Physics of Accretion Onto Highly Magnetized Neutron Stars
Michael T. Wolff, Peter A. Becker, Joel Coley +16
Studying the physical processes occurring in the region just above the magnetic poles of strongly magnetized, accreting binary neutron stars is essential to our understanding of st…
Astro 2020 Science White Paper: Time Domain Studies of Neutron Star and Black Hole Populations: X-ray Identification of Compact Object Types
N. Vulic, A. E. Hornschemeier, V. Antoniou +16
What are the most important conditions and processes governing the growth of stellar-origin compact objects? The identification of compact object type as either black hole (BH) or…
A possible phase dependent absorption feature in the transient X-ray pulsar SAX J2103.5+4545
McKinley C. Brumback, Ryan C. Hickox, Felix S. Fürst +5
We present an X-ray spectral and timing analysis of two observations of the transient Be X-ray binary SAX J2103.5+4545 during its April 2016 outburst, which was characteri…
Evidence for different accretion regimes in GRO J1008-57
Matthias Kühnel, Felix Fürst, Katja Pottschmidt +6
We present a comprehensive spectral analysis of the BeXRB GRO J1008-57 over a luminosity range of three orders of magnitude using NuSTAR, Suzaku and RXTE data. We find significant…