Cataclysmic Variables and Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Evolution of Cataclysmic Binaries

   1. Evolution of Cataclysmic Binaries

      • B. Paczynski

      Pages 1-14

   2. Pre-Cataclysmic Binaries

      • Howard E. Bond

      Pages 15-27

   3. Abell 41, A Cataclysmic Variable Progenitor

      • Albert D. Grauer

      Pages 29-33

   4. The Breakdown of Nuclear Quasi-Equilibrium in Highly Compact Binaries

      • P. C. Joss, S. Rappaport

      Pages 35-38

   5. A Systematic Study of Magnetic Braking in Low-Mass Binaries

      • F. Verbunt, S. Rappaport, P. C. Joss

      Pages 39-43

   6. Magnetic Braking and the Origin and Evolution of Close Low-Mass Binaries

      • A. Tutukov

      Pages 45-53

   7. On The Evolutionary Status of Bright, Low-Mass X-Ray Sources

      • R. F. Webbink, S. Rappaport, G. J. Savonije

      Pages 55-59

3. Low-Mass X-ray Binaries

   1. Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries

      • Jefferey E. McClintock, Saul A. Rappaport

      Pages 61-77

   2. Galactic Bulge X-Ray Burst Sources from Disrupted Globular Clusters ?

      • Jonathan E. Grindlay, Paul Hertz

      Pages 79-91

   3. General Discussion on Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries

      • Donald Q. Lamb, Joseph Patterson

      Pages 93-97

   4. X-Ray Luminous White Dwarf Binaries in Globular Clusters

      • Paul Hertz

      Pages 99-102

   5. Three Body Interactions and Cataclysmic Binaries in Globular Clusters

      • Piet Hut, Frank Verbunt

      Pages 103-106

   6. The Evolution of Highly Compact Binaries in Globular Clusters

      • Julian H. Krolik, Avery Meiksin, Paul C. Joss

      Pages 107-116

   7. General Discussion on Binary Evolution in Globular Clusters

      • Donald Q. Lamb, Joseph Patterson

      Pages 117-120

   8. Radiation Transfer in Accretion Disk Coronae

      • Richard A. London

      Pages 121-132

   9. Hydrodynamic Simulations of a Combined Hydrogen, Helium Thermonuclear Runaway on a 10 Km Neutron Star

      • S. Starrfield, S. Kenyon, J. W. Truran, W. M. Sparks

      Pages 133-137

   10. Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Galactic Bulge Sources Observed by Hakucho

       • Masaru Matsuoka

       Pages 139-142

   11. The Mass Transfer Rate in X1916-053: Is it Driven by Gravitational Radiation?

       • J. H. Swank, R. E. Taam, N. E. White

       Pages 143-146

   12. COS-B X-Ray Observations of Cygnus X-3

       • J. H. Bonnet-Bidaud, M. van der Klis

       Pages 147-150

Since 1976 a meeting devoted to recent research on cataclysmic variables ("CV workshop") has been held annually somewhere in North America. Many of the meetings have been held - following a custom older than anyone reading this book - in locations with well-known recreational potential (e. g. Santa Cruz, CA; Boulder, CO). We thought hard about this custom while contemplating the possibility of organi­ zing a meeting in Massachusetts in the middle of winter. Nobody wants their meeting to go down in history as the smallest and dullest, and it ~ surely be the coldest. But on occasion, meeting organizers have defied custom and scheduled meetings for less~than-trendy places, and gotten away with it (Ur·bana, IL and Rochester, NY must be reckoned as examples of this). Encouraged by the spatial and temporal proximity of the American Astronomical Society meeting (Boston, January 9-12), we thought we might get away with it again, and so came to organize a meeting for January 12-15, 1983, in Cambridge, MA. There was another reason for a meeting at this time and place, we loftily proclaimed in early mailings. No one doubts that the CV's are closely related to the low-mass X-ray binaries ("LMXB' s"), in which the accreting star is usually, or perhaps always, more compact than a white dwarf. Many of the general characteristics of LMXB's sound pretty familiar to any student of CV's: orbital periods in the range 0.

• Accretion
• Bulge
• accretion disk
• gravitation
• gravity
• neutron star
• star
• stars
• stellar

• Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA

  Donald Q. Lamb, Joseph Patterson

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