TY - GEN
T1 - High mass X-ray binaries
T2 - 14th Marcel Grossman Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories
AU - Chaty, Sylvain
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PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - In this review I briefly describe the nature of the three kinds of High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs), accreting through: (i) Be circumstellar disc, (ii) supergiant stellar wind, and (iii) Roche lobe filling supergiants. A previously unknown population of HMXBs hosting supergiant stars has been revealed in the last years, with multi-wavelength campaigns including high energy (INTEGRAL, Swift, XMM, Chandra) and optical/infrared (mainly ESO) observations. This population is divided between obscured supergiant HMXBs, and supergiant fast X-ray transients (SFXTs), characterized by short and intense X-ray flares. I discuss the characteristics of these types of supergiant HMXBs, propose a scenario describing the properties of these high-energy sources, and finally show how the observations can constrain the accretion models (e.g. clumpy winds, magneto-centrifugal barrier, transitory accretion disc, etc). Because they are the likely progenitors of Luminous Blue Variables (LBVs), and also of double neutron star systems, related to short/hard gamma-ray bursts, the knowledge of the formation and evolution of this HMXB population is of prime importance.
AB - In this review I briefly describe the nature of the three kinds of High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs), accreting through: (i) Be circumstellar disc, (ii) supergiant stellar wind, and (iii) Roche lobe filling supergiants. A previously unknown population of HMXBs hosting supergiant stars has been revealed in the last years, with multi-wavelength campaigns including high energy (INTEGRAL, Swift, XMM, Chandra) and optical/infrared (mainly ESO) observations. This population is divided between obscured supergiant HMXBs, and supergiant fast X-ray transients (SFXTs), characterized by short and intense X-ray flares. I discuss the characteristics of these types of supergiant HMXBs, propose a scenario describing the properties of these high-energy sources, and finally show how the observations can constrain the accretion models (e.g. clumpy winds, magneto-centrifugal barrier, transitory accretion disc, etc). Because they are the likely progenitors of Luminous Blue Variables (LBVs), and also of double neutron star systems, related to short/hard gamma-ray bursts, the knowledge of the formation and evolution of this HMXB population is of prime importance.
KW - Black hole
KW - Companion star
KW - Neutron star
KW - Supergiant
KW - X-ray binaries
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85059056434
U2 - 10.1142/9789813226609_0198
DO - 10.1142/9789813226609_0198
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85059056434
T3 - 14th Marcel Grossman Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, Proceedings
SP - 1883
EP - 1888
BT - 14th Marcel Grossman Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, Proceedings
A2 - Bianchi, Massimo
A2 - Jantzen, Robert T
A2 - Ruffini, Remo
A2 - Ruffini, Remo
PB - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
Y2 - 12 July 2015 through 18 July 2015
ER -