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The Perils of Pdot
Andrew King, Jean-Pierre Lasota
Schaefer (2024) has recently published observations of binary period derivatives for 52 cataclysmic variables, and concluded that these strongly conflict with all proposed…
SN 2022jli: The ultraluminous birth of a low-mass X-ray binary
Andrew King, Jean-Pierre Lasota
Observations show that the 12.4 d binary system descending from the recent supernova SN 2022jli closely fits hypotheses of how low-mass X-ray binaries form, but requires an apparen…
Ultraluminous X-ray sources are beamed
Jean-Pierre Lasota, Andrew King
We show that magnetar models for ULX behaviour have serious internal inconsistencies. The magnetic fields required to increase the limiting luminosity for radiation pressure above…
Ultraluminous X-ray sources
Andrew King, Jean-Pierre Lasota, Matthew Middleton
The study of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) has changed dramatically over the last decade. In this review we first describe the most important observations of ULXs in various w…
Cygnus X-2, super-Eddington mass transfer, and pulsar binaries
A. R. King, H. Ritter
We consider the unusual evolutionary state of the secondary star in Cygnus X-2. Spectroscopic data give a low mass ($M_2 \simeq 0.5 - 0.7\msun$) and yet a large radius ($R_2 \simeq…