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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…
Vela X-1 as a laboratory for accretion in High-Mass X-ray Binaries
P. Kretschmar, S. Martínez-Núñez, F. Fürst +7
Vela X-1 is an eclipsing high mass X-ray binary (HMXB) consisting of a 283s accreting X-ray pulsar in a close orbit of 8.964 days around the B0.5Ib supergiant HD77581 at a distance…
Formation of wind-captured discs in Supergiant X-ray binaries : consequences for Vela X-1 and Cygnus X-1
I. El Mellah, A. A. C. Sander, J. O. Sundqvist +1
In Supergiant X-ray binaries (SgXB), a compact object captures a fraction of the wind of an O/B supergiant on a close orbit. Proxies exist to evaluate the efficiency of mass and an…
The clumpy absorber in the high-mass X-ray binary Vela X-1
V. Grinberg, N. Hell, I. El Mellah +13
Bright and eclipsing, the high-mass X-ray binary Vela X-1 offers a unique opportunity to study accretion onto a neutron star from clumpy winds of O/B stars and to disentangle the c…