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Supersoft X-ray sources : proceedings of the international workshop held in Garching, Germany, 28 February-1 March 1996 /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Greiner, Jochen, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1996]
Series:Lecture notes in physics ; 472.
Subjects:
X-ray binaries > Congresses.
X-ray sources, Galactic > Congresses.
X-ray binaries.
X-ray sources, Galactic.
Electronic books.
Conference proceedings.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • From the contents: Population Properties of Supersoft X-Ray Sources (SSS).-. Winds and Accretion Disks in SSS
  • X-Ray and Optical Observations of SSS
  • Instrinsic Variability of SSS
  • Supersopft Sources as SN Ia Progenitors
  • Symbiotics and Other Related Systems
  • Catalog of Supersoft X-Ray Sources
  • Appendix.