X-Ray Binaries and Recycled Pulsars

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Orbital Periods of Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries....Pages 5-18
ROSAT — Early Results....Pages 19-26
Black Holes in Binary Systems....Pages 27-36
Recent Results from Ginga on X-Ray Binaries: Selected Topics....Pages 37-48
Z and Atoll Sources as a Clue to the Evolution of Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries....Pages 49-59
X-ray Diagnostics of Accretion Disks....Pages 61-74
Sight: A Scintillation Imaging Gas-Filled Hard X-ray Telescope....Pages 75-75
Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters....Pages 79-86
Recent Observations of Recycled Pulsars....Pages 87-92
Discovery of Two Millisecond Pulsars at High Galactic Latitudes....Pages 93-98
Millisecond Pulsars and Quiescent LMXBS....Pages 99-104
Continuum Observations of Recycled Pulsars....Pages 105-113
Millisecond Pulsar Spectra....Pages 115-119
Searching for Pulsars in Globular Clusters : The Parkes/Jodrell Bank Surveys....Pages 121-129
Discovery and Timing of Radio Pulsars in Globular Clusters M13 and M15....Pages 131-145
A New Pulsar — Supernova Remnant Association....Pages 149-153
New Pulsar Proper Motion Results from Jodrell Bank....Pages 155-160
The Evolution of the Optical Remnant of Kepler’s SN....Pages 161-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Accretion Induced Collapse....Pages 167-187
Accretion-Induced Collapse of White Dwarfs....Pages 189-205
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Some Problems in the Theory of Isolated Pulsars....Pages 207-213
Relativistic Shock Waves and the Excitation of Plerions....Pages 215-228
Neutrino Driven Neutron Star Formation....Pages 229-229
Formation and Evolution of Neutron Star Binaries....Pages 233-256
From Low-Mass X-ray Binaries to Binary and Millisecond Pulsars....Pages 257-268
Common Envelope Evolution and Formation of Cataclysmic Variables and Low-Mass X-ray Binaries....Pages 269-280
The Common Envelope Evolution of Massive Stars....Pages 281-291
The Evolution of Her X-1 and Why Her X-1 Like Systems are Very Rare....Pages 293-309
Collisions Between a White Dwarf and a Main-Sequence Star....Pages 311-315
New Directions in Globular Cluster Modeling....Pages 317-348
Statistics of Pulsars in Globular Clusters....Pages 349-364
CVs in Globular Clusters: Clues to Compact Binary Production....Pages 365-373
Evaporation of Companions in VLMXBs and in Binary Millisecond Pulsars....Pages 375-386
Radiation-Driven Evolution of Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries and the Formation of Millisecond Pulsars....Pages 387-399
A New Mechanism for Angular Momentum Loss in Very-Low-Mass X-ray Binaries and Binary Millisecond Pulsars....Pages 401-412
X-ray Dippers, Eclipsing Pulsars and Three-Dimensional Orbits....Pages 413-424
From Millisecond Pulsars to Low Mass X-ray Binaries....Pages 425-436
A Determination of the Radio-Luminosity Function and Relative Number of Globular Cluster Pulsars....Pages 437-442
Pulsar Velocities and Their Origins....Pages 445-452
Statistical Studies of the Local Pulsar Population....Pages 453-463
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Neutron Star Structure and Superfluidity: A 1991 Perspective....Pages 467-471
Magnetic Field Evolution from Neutron Star Crust Breaking....Pages 473-484
Diagnostics of Disk-Magnetosphere Interaction in Neutron Star Binaries....Pages 487-510
Quasi Periodic Oscillations and Sound....Pages 511-517
“Experimental” Discovery of a Tilt Instability in Standard Accretion Disks Around Luminous X-ray Sources....Pages 519-525
6 HZ Quasi-Periodic Oscillations from Low-Mass X-ray Binaries: The Sound of an Accretion Disk?....Pages 527-535
Magnetic Flares Near Black Holes....Pages 537-537
Front Matter....Pages 539-539
Concluding Remarks....Pages 541-547
Back Matter....Pages 549-566