creators_name: Sood, R
creators_name: Farrell, S
creators_name: O'Neill, P
creators_name: Dieters, S
creators_id: 
creators_id: 
creators_id: 
creators_id: Stefan.Dieters@utas.edu.au
type: article
datestamp: 2008-04-07 14:16:15
lastmod: 2008-12-17 00:20:28
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title: Super-orbital periods in X-ray binaries
ispublished: pub
subjects: 240101
full_text_status: restricted
keywords: X-ray binaries; Accretion discs; X-ray variability
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abstract: Super-orbital periods have been reported from more than 30 X-ray binaries, but no consistent picture has emerged as to the underlying mechanism behind these periods. Only four of the sources have exhibited stable super-orbital periods over intervals of several years, and three of these are classed as high mass X-ray binaries. The remaining sources are split approximately equally between low mass and high mass binaries. We have searched for correlations with known properties of the binary systems for all the sources, viz. compact object spin periods, orbital periods, accretion disc precession, and companion star properties. We present the results of our investigations.


date: 2007
date_type: published
publication: Advances in Space Research
volume: 40
number: 10
publisher: Pergamon
pagerange: 1528-1531
id_number: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.02.057 
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0273-1177
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2007.02.057 
citation: Sood, R and Farrell, S and O'Neill, P and Dieters, S (2007) Super-orbital periods in X-ray binaries. Advances in Space Research, 40 (10). pp. 1528-1531. ISSN 0273-1177
document_url: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/3985/1/3985.pdf