2008/06/25 by P. Blay, S. Martínez‐Núñez, S. Martínez-Núñez +8 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Accretion (finance) #Astronomy #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Binary number #Blue supergiant #Computer science #Context (archaeology) #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #High mass #History #Neutron star #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Red supergiant #Stars #Supergiant #Term (time) #Transient (computer programming) #X-ray binary #X-ray transient #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:200809385
9 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
arxiv created 2008/06/25 · openalex publication_date 2008/08/08 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Context. In the past few years, a new class of high mass X-ray binaries (HMXRB) has been claimed to exist, the supergiant fast X-ray transients (SFXT). These are X-ray binary systems with a compact companion orbiting a supergiant star which show very short and bright outbursts in a series of activity periods overimposed on longer quiescent periods. Only very recently the first attempts to model the behaviour of these sources have been published, some of them within the framework of accretion from clumpy stellar winds.