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most citedFormation of wind-captured discs in Supergiant X-ray binaries : consequences for Vela X-1 and Cygnus X-1

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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…