Accretion-powered Compact Binaries

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Accretion-powered Compact Binaries is written by Christopher W. Mauche and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521545757 (ISBN 10) and 9780521545754 (ISBN 13).

This book is a well-edited and comprehensive survey of the current research in the field of low-mass accretion powered compact binaries, that is, binary stars containing a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole as the primary star and a Roche-lobe filling low-mass as the secondary star. These stars have reached a stage in their evolution where the transfer of mass from the giant phase onto a dwarf or sub-dwarf star demonstrates many different aspects of physics. The volume is essentially a complete analysis of these stars combining theory and observation, and covering observations of low-mass X-ray binaries and both magnetic and nonmagnetic cataclysmic variables, theories of stellar accretion, novae, and evolution of compact binaries.