X-ray Binary Atlas
Picture credits. Top left: White and Angellini 2001. Top right: Hynes http://www.astro.soton.ac.uk/
~rih/.
Right: Schematic of disk reprocessing in X-ray pulsars. The hard (power-law spectrum) X-ray beam sweeps around and illuminates the accretion disk, which reradiates a soft X-ray (blackbody) component. The observer sees pulses from both the power-law and blackbody components, but these differ in pulse shape and phase.
Hickox and Vrtilek (2005).
This site provides spectra and lightcurves of X-ray binaries from optical to X-ray energy range as a function
of binary type (BH, NS, HMXB, LMXB), orbital phase, superorbital phase, and aperiodic X-ray
spectral states. Superorbital phase and X-ray spectral state will be determined using the
RXTE ASM database.
Observatories:
ASCA BeppoSAX CGRO Chandra EUVE Hubble IUE Magellan MMT ROSAT RXTE Spitzer Suzaku XMM