Summary
The most important recent observational discoveries in the field of X-ray binaries are probably those of the slow pulsars and of the winds of normal early-type main-sequence stars. These facts yield key information on the evolutionary history of the X-ray binaries and on the rotational slow-down mechanism for a neutron star in a stellar wind, as will be pointed out in section 3. In the theoretical field, the X-ray binaries have triggered much fundamental work, notably on the detailed processes of mass transfer and on tidal evolution, which will be considered in sections 2, 4 and 5.
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van den Heuvel, E.P.J., Savonije, G.J. (1977). The Evolutionary History of X-Ray Binaries. In: Müller, E.A. (eds) Highlights of Astronomy. International Astronomical Union / Union Astronomique Internationale, vol 4-1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1248-5_15
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