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Sub-Millisecond Pulsars: Missing or Impossible?
T. M. Tauris, V. Venkatraman Krishnan, R. Senzel +7
The minimum spin period attainable by a neutron star has been debated since the discovery of the first millisecond pulsar in 1982. A neutron star rotating faster than 1 ms would ha…
Einstein Probe discovery of EP J005245.1-722843: a rare BeWD binary in the Small Magellanic Cloud?
A. Marino, H. Yang, F. Coti Zelati +32
On May 27 2024, the Wide-field X-ray Telescope onboard the Einstein Probe (EP) mission detected enhanced X-ray emission from a new transient source in the Small Magellanic Cloud (S…
Physics of Binary Star Evolution -- from Stars to X-ray Binaries and Gravitational Wave Sources
Thomas M. Tauris, Ed P. J. van den Heuvel
The majority of all stars are members of a binary system. The evolution of such binary stars and their subsequent production of pairs of compact objects in tight orbits, such as do…
A Possible Discovery of the Optical Counterpart of the X-ray source NuSTAR J053449+2126.0
E. N. Ercan, E. Aktekin Çalışkan, M. H. Erkut +2
We report the observation of a possible optical counterpart to the recently discovered X-ray source NuSTAR J053449+2126.0 (J0534 in short). We observed the source location using th…
Forming short-period Wolf-Rayet X-ray binaries and double black holes through stable mass transfer
Edward P. J. van den Heuvel, Simon F. Portegies Zwart, Selma E. de Mink
We show that black-hole High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) with O- or B-type donor stars and relatively short orbital periods, of order one week to several months may survive spiral…
Was the nineteenth century giant eruption of Eta Carinae a merger event in a triple system?
Simon Portegies Zwart, Edward P. J. van den Heuvel
We discuss the events that led to the giant eruption of Eta Carinae, and find that the mid-nineteenth century (in 1838-1843) giant mass-loss outburst has the characteristics of bei…
Formation of the Galactic Millisecond Pulsar Triple System PSR J0337+1715 - a Neutron Star with Two Orbiting White Dwarfs
Thomas Tauris, Ed van den Heuvel
The millisecond pulsar in a triple system (PSR J0337+1715, recently discovered by Ransom et al.) is an unusual neutron star with two orbiting white dwarfs. The existence of such a…
Common Envelope Evolution: Where we stand and how we can move forward
N. Ivanova, S. Justham, X. Chen +16
This work aims to present our current best physical understanding of common-envelope evolution (CEE). We highlight areas of consensus and disagreement, and stress ideas which shoul…
The extremely long period X-ray source in a young supernova remnant: a Thorne-Zytkow Object descendant?
X. W. Liu, R. X. Xu, E. P. J. van den Heuvel +4
The origin of the 6.67 hr period X-ray source, 1E161348-5055, in the young supernova remnant RCW 103 is puzzling. We propose that it may be the descendant of a Thorne-Zytkow Object…
MAXI J1659-152: The shortest orbital period black-hole transient in outburst
E. Kuulkers, C. Kouveliotou, T. Belloni +12
MAXI J1659-152 is a bright X-ray transient black-hole candidate binary system discovered in September 2010. We report here on MAXI, RXTE, Swift, and XMM-Newton observations during…
The Peculiar Evolutionary History of IGR J17480-2446 in Terzan 5
A. Patruno, M. A. Alpar, M. van der Klis +1
The low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) IGR J17480-2446 in the globular cluster Terzan 5 harbors an 11 Hz accreting pulsar. This is the first object discovered in a globular cluster with…
The formation of the eccentric-orbit millisecond pulsar J1903+0327 and the origin of single millisecond pulsars
Simon Portegies Zwart, Ed van den Heuvel, Joeri van Leeuwen +1
The millisecond pulsar J1903+0327 is accompanied by an ordinary G-dwarf star in an unusually wide (\,days) and eccentric () orbit. The stand…
Mass Transfer, Transiting Stream and Magnetopause in Close-in Exoplanetary Systems with Applications to WASP-12
Dong Lai, Ch. Helling, E. P. J. van den Heuvel
We study mass transfer by Roche lobe overflow in close-in exoplanetary systems. The planet's atmospheric gas passes through the inner Lagrangian point and flows along a narrow stre…
GRB 021004: Tomography of a gamma-ray burst progenitor and its host galaxy
A. J. Castro-Tirado, P. Möller, G. García-Segura +23
We analyse the distribution of matter around the progenitor star of gamma-ray burst GRB 021004 as well as the properties of its host galaxy with high-resolution echelle as well as…
Constraints on Type Ib/c and GRB Progenitors
C. L. Fryer, P. A. Mazzali, J. Prochaska +14
Although there is strong support for the collapsar engine as the power source of long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), we still do not definitively know the progenitor of these ex…
Probing a GRB progenitor at a redshift of z=2: a comprehensive observing campaign of the afterglow of GRB 030226
S. Klose, J. Greiner, A. Rau +38
We report results from a comprehensive follow-up observing campaign of the afterglow of GRB 030226, including VLT spectroscopy, VLT polarimetry, and Chandra X-ray observations. In…
Discovery of the Near-IR Afterglow and of the Host of GRB 030528
A. Rau, J. Greiner, S. Klose +24
The rapid dissemination of an arcmin-sized HETE-2 localization of the long-duration X-ray flash GRB 030528 led to a ground-based multi-observatory follow-up campaign. We report the…
A very energetic supernova associated with the gamma-ray burst of 29 March 2003
Jens Hjorth, Jesper Sollerman, Palle Møller +24
Over the past five years evidence has mounted that long-duration (> 2 s) gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)--the most brilliant of all astronomical explosions--signal the collapse of massive…
On the formation of neon-enriched donor stars in ultracompact X-ray binaries
L. R. Yungelson, G. Nelemans, E. P. J. van den Heuvel
We study the formation of neon-enriched donor stars in ultracompact X-ray binaries (orbital periods P<80 min) and show that their progenitors have to be low-mass (0.3 - 0.4 solar m…
The evolution of naked helium stars with a neutron-star companion in close binary systems
J. D. M. Dewi, O. R. Pols, G. J. Savonije +1
The evolution of helium stars with masses of 1.5 - 6.7 M_sun in binary systems with a 1.4 M_sun neutron-star companion is presented. Such systems are assumed to be the remnants of…
The formation of black hole low-mass X-ray binaries: through case B or case C mass transfer?
G. Nelemans, E. P. J. van den Heuvel
The formation of low-mass X-ray binaries containing a rather massive (M >~ 7 \msun) black hole is problematic because in most recent stellar evolutionary calculations the immediate…
VLT spectroscopy of GRB 990510 and GRB 990712; probing the faint and bright end of the GRB host galaxy population
P. M. Vreeswijk, A. Fruchter, L. Kaper +15
We present time-resolved optical spectroscopy of the afterglows of the gamma-ray bursts GRB 990510 and GRB 990712. Through the identification of several absorption lines in the fir…
GRB990712: First Indication of Polarization Variability in a Gamma-ray Burst Afterglow
E. Rol, R. A. M. J. Wijers, P. M. Vreeswijk +9
We report the detection of significant polarization in the optical afterglow of GRB990712 on three instances 0.44, 0.70 and 1.45 days after the gamma-ray burst, with (P, theta) bei…
Formation of Millisecond Pulsars with Heavy White Dwarf Companions - Extreme Mass Transfer on Sub-Thermal Timescales
T. M. Tauris, E. P. J. van den Heuvel, G. J. Savonije
We have performed detailed numerical calculations of the non-conservative evolution of close X-ray binary systems with intermediate-mass (2.0-6.0 M_sun) donor stars and a 1.3 M_sun…