2016/01/01 by J. Wang, Jing Wang
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Accretion (finance) #Accretion disc #Astronomy #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Binary number #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Intermediate polar #Neutron star #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Stars #White dwarf #astro-ph.HE #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1155/2016/3424565
Review article
openalex publication_date 2016/01/01 · arxiv created 2019/09/03 · arxiv updated 2019/09/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Neutron stars (NSs) powered by accretion, which are known as accretion-powered NSs, always are located in binary systems and manifest themselves as X-ray sources. Physical processes taking place during the accretion of material from their companions form a challenging and appealing topic, because of the strong magnetic field of NSs. In this paper, we review the physical process of accretion onto magnetized NS in X-ray binary systems. We, firstly, give an introduction to accretion-powered NSs and review the accretion mechanism in X-ray binaries. This review is mostly focused on accretion-induced evolution of NSs, which includes scenario of NSs both in high-mass binaries and in low-mass systems.