Abstracts by session
| Name: | Timothy Linden |
| Institution: | UCSC/Fermilab |
| Country: | USA |
| Title: | A binary evolution approach to understanding the BeXRB phenomenon |
| Abstract: | Numerical advances have allowed for detailed simulations of the evolution for a galactic population of binary stellar systems – providing us with detailed information regarding both the stellar and binary properties of evolved XRBs. We employ these methods in order to understand the evolutionary processes governing BeXRBs and find that: (1) BeXRBs require low supernova natal kicks and are thus highly correlated with electron-capture supernovae, (2) the continued evolution of BeXRBs results in the creation of an unstable common envelope phase which leads to mergers for in nearly all cases, (3) the lack of BeXRBs with a black hole accretor can be easily understood if the BeXRB phenomenon is connected to binary interactions. Lastly, we examine what population synthesis models tell us about the BeXRB phenomenon as a function of metallicity, paying specific note to the abnormally large BeXRB population in the SMC. |
Jul 20, 2011
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