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Are Most of X-Ray Binaries Recurrent Transients?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Janusz Ziółkowski*
Affiliation:
N. Copernicus Astronomical Center Polish Academy of Sciences ul. Bartycka 18, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland

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The aim of this paper is to argue that some day in the not-too-distant future one of the well-known X-ray pulsars, say, Cen X-3 (although better examples would be probably GX 301-2 or GX 1+4), will disappear from the X-ray sky. It will reappear again after some, say, tens of years and its pulse period will be then longer than it is now.

Type
VI. X-Ray Binaries
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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