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New Insights into X-ray Binaries

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X-ray binaries are excellent laboratories to study collapsed objects. On the one hand, transient X-ray binaries contain the best examples of stellar-mass black holes while persistent X-ray binaries mostly harbor accreting neutron stars. The determination of stellar masses in persistent X-ray binaries is usually hampered by the overwhelming luminosity of the X-ray heated accretion disc. However, the discovery of high-excitation emission lines from the irradiated companion star has opened new routes in the study of compact objects. This paper presents novel techniques which exploits these irradiated lines and summarizes the dynamical masses obtained for the two populations of collapsed stars: neutron stars and black holes.

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I would like to acknowledge helpful comments from my colleaguesD. Steeghs, R. Cornelisse and T. Muñoz-Darias. I’m also grateful for support from the Spanish MCYT grant AYA2007-66887.

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Casares, J. (2010). New Insights into X-ray Binaries. In: Diego, J., Goicoechea, L., González-Serrano, J., Gorgas, J. (eds) Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics V. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11250-8_1

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