Supersoft X-ray sources : proceedings of the international workshop held in Garching, Germany, 28 February-1 March 1996 /
Observations with X-ray satellite ROSAT over the past 5 years have established supersoft X-ray sources as a new class of objects in our Galaxy and beyond. Optical follow-up observations have revealed the binary nature of several of them. Recent population synthesis calculations have shown that the n...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
[1996]
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| Series: | Lecture notes in physics ;
472. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Observations with X-ray satellite ROSAT over the past 5 years have established supersoft X-ray sources as a new class of objects in our Galaxy and beyond. Optical follow-up observations have revealed the binary nature of several of them. Recent population synthesis calculations have shown that the number of such binaries is expected to be considerably larger than those of the common low- and high-mass X-ray binaries. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the many recent observational discoveries and theoretical investigations. It describes relations between supersoft sources and other areas in astrophysics. This volume also comprises a complete catalog of presently known supersoft sources including a comprehensive bibliography of observational results. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 350 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783540685128 (electronic bk.) 354068512X (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 1616-6361 ; |