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Low-mass X-ray binaries

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The connection between cosmic X-ray sources and compact stars is an old one: soon after the discovery of the first such source, Sco X-1 (Giacconi et al. 1962), it was proposed that these objects are young, hot neutron stars, formed in recent Supernovae, which cool through thermal radiation from their surfaces (Chiu 1964, Chiu and Salpeter 1964, Finzi 1964). However, the finite extent of the X-ray source associated with the Crab Nebula (Bowyer et al . 1964), and the non-Planckian shape of the X-ray spectra of this source (Clark 1965) and of Sco X-1 (Giacconi et al. 1965) showed that this was not, in general, a good model for X-ray sources.

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