2004/11/29 by I. Negueruela, Ignacio Negueruela, Negueruela, Ignacio
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0411759
Contribution presented at the conference "The Many Scales of the Universe - JENAM 2004 Astrophysics Reviews", joint European and Spanish astronomical meeting, held in Granada (Spain) in September 2004. To be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, eds. J. C. del Toro Iniesta et al. 18 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2004/11/29 · openalex publication_date 2004/11/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The study of massive X-ray binaries provides important observational diagnostics for a number of fundamental astrophysical issues, such as the evolution of massive stars, the stellar winds of massive stars, the formation of compact objects and accretion processes. More than three decades of study have led to a coherent picture of their formation and evolution and some understanding of the physical mechanisms involved. As more and more systems are discovered, this picture grows in complexity. Over the last two years, INTEGRAL has discovered a new population of massive X-ray binaries, characterised by absorbed spectra, which challenges some of our previous assumptions and guarantees that this will be a major subject of research for the near future.