Scientific Seminars

Low-Mass X-ray Binaries and their spectral evolution

A. Paizis
IASF

2011-02-17    11.00    Merate - POE

In the first part of the seminar I will present an overview of the main characteristics of X-ray binaries (XRBs: formation, evolution, emission mechanisms, distribution in the Galaxy, observational properties, etc) while in the second part I will discuss in detail the X-ray spectral evolution of a subclass of XRBs, namely low mass X-ray binaries hosting a neutron star.