Optical spectroscopy of (candidate) ultracompact X-ray binaries: Constraints on the composition of the donor stars

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 370, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 255-262

  Nelemans, G ^a,b   Jonker, P G ^c,d,e   Steeghs, D ^d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; White dwarfs; X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

TELESCOPES; URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

4U 1626-67; ACCRETION DISCS; BINARIES: CLOSE; BINARY CONSTRAINTS; EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL-; SPECTRA'S; VERY LARGE TELESCOPE; X-RAYS: BINARIES;

WHITE DWARFS;

EID: 33746047084     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10496.x     Document Type: Article

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