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Binaries with compact components (neutron stars and black holes) are a natural outcome of standard close binary evolution, and the supply can be augmented by capture and accretion-induced collapse of wpJte dwarfs under suitable circumstances (Sect. 1). Our basic understanding of the formation, evolution, and deaths of such systems provided a good match to the properties of the classes of objects normally attributed to them. These include the X-ray binaries (of high and low mass, and a few with black hole primaries) and the “recycled” binary and millisecond pulsars (Sect. 2 & 3). Statistical issues of which processes dominate the production of low-mass and pulsar systems are still under debate. The thermal radiation from the X-ray systems is much better understood than is the non-thermal radiation of the pulsars (Sect. 4), though the former present the additional complication of gas transfer between the stars (Sect. 5). Some relatively unusual types of systems (Sect. 6) mayor may not be part of the basic evolutionary picture.
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Trimble, V. (1993). Binary Systems with Compact Components. In: Sahade, J., McCluskey, G.E., Kondo, Y. (eds) The Realm of Interacting Binary Stars. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 177. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2416-4_14
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