X-ray Binary Atlas
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.
Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of
the author(s) and do not reflect the views of the National Astrophysics
and Space Administration (NASA).
This page last updated December 1st th, 2006.
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