Accreting Neutron Stars in Low-Mass X-ray Binaries

arXiv:2610.10691 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-10-07 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-07

Terminology

• White Dwarf — 7× in this paper
• Trace — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accretion Flows — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hysteresis — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• APEX — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accretion Shock — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Anti-correlation — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accretion Physics — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Momentum transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• The Disk Wind in the Neutron Star Low-mass X-Ray Binary GX 13+1
• Intermittent millisecond X-ray pulsations from the neutron-star X-ray transient SAX J1748.9-2021 in the globular cluster NGC 6440
• Discovery of a 205.89 Hz accreting-millisecond X-ray pulsar in the globular cluster NGC 6440
• Discovery of an accreting millisecond pulsar in the eclipsing binary system Swift J1749.4-2807
• Optical pulsations from a transitional millisecond pulsar
• Optical and ultraviolet pulsed emission from an accreting millisecond pulsar
• Spectral analysis of the low-mass X-ray pulsar 4U 1822-371: Reflection component in a high-inclination system
• The first IXPE view of the eclipsing ADC source 4U 1822-37
• A Radio Pulsar/X-ray Binary Link
• Accretion-powered pulsations in an apparently quiescent neutron star binary
• Investigating a Fluctuating-accretion Model for the Spectral-timing Properties of Accreting Black Hole Systems
• Optical spectroscopy of 4U 1812-12: an ultra-compact X-ray binary seen through an H II region
• UltraCompCAT: a comprehensive Catalogue of Ultra-Compact and Short Orbital Period X-ray Binaries
• Polarimetric and spectroscopic optical observations of the ultra-compact X-ray binary 4U 0614+091
• 1RXS J180408.9-342058: an ultra compact X-ray binary candidate with a transient jet
• Different twins in the millisecond pulsar recycling scenario: optical polarimetry of PSR J1023+0038 and XSS J12270-4859
• Peering at the outflow mechanisms in the transitional pulsar PSR J1023+0038: simultaneous VLT, XMM-Newton, and Swift high-time resolution observations
• Probing jet launching in neutron star X-ray binaries: the variable and polarized jet of SAX J1808.4-3658
• Matter ejections behind the highs and lows of the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038
• Multi-band study of the flaring mode emission in the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038

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