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High Resolution Studies of Compact Binaries in Globular Clusters With HST and ROSAT
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
Abstract
The studies of compact binaries containing an accreting white dwarf or neutron star in the dense cores of globular clusters have made considerable progress in the past few years as a result of the high resolution images obtained with HST and ROSAT. It is now clear that cluster cores contain a significant population of these systems which must constrain the similarly large populations of millisecond pulsars as well as dynamical histories of clusters. The population of dim x-ray sources appears to be dominated by cataclysmic variables (CVs) formed by tidal capture and not exchange collisions. Our recent HST/FOS spectra of the first CVs in a cluster core, summarized here in more detail, suggest that cluster cores may contain a significant population of magnetic CVs. The required magnetic WDs may arise in spun-up cores of blue stragglers.
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- August 25: X Ray and Compact Objects in Globular Clusters
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 174: Dynamical Evolution of Stars Clusters , 1996 , pp. 171 - 180
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1996
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