Intermediate-mass X-ray binary
- Intermediate-mass X-ray binary
An intermediate-mass X-ray binary (IMXB) is a binary star system where one of the components is a neutron star or a black hole. The other component is an intermediate mass star.
ee also
* X-ray binary
* Low-mass X-ray binary
* High-mass X-ray binaries
External link
[http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107261 Evolutionary Binary Sequences for Low- and Intermediate-Mass X-ray Binaries] , Philipp Podsiadlowski, Saul Rappaport, & Eric Pfahl, 2001.
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