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Advances in Understanding High-Mass X-ray Binaries with INTEGRALand Future Directions
Torres, Diego F.; Li, Jian; Rothschild, Richard E. +48 more
High mass X-ray binaries are among the brightest X-ray sources in the Milky Way, as well as in nearby Galaxies. Thanks to their highly variable emissions and complex phenomenology, they have attracted the interest of the high energy astrophysical community since the dawn of X-ray Astronomy. In more recent years, they have challenged our comprehens…
Surviving companions of Type Ia supernovae: theory and observations
Ruiz-Lapuente, Pilar
We review the theoretical background and the observational searches made for surviving companions of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Theory comprises the characteristics of the stellar binary companions of the exploding white dwarfs at the time of the supernova outburst and the expected effects on them of the explosion, as well as their subsequent ev…
INTEGRAL results on gamma-ray bursts and polarization of hard X-ray sources
Mereghetti, Sandro; Götz, Diego; Laurent, Philippe +9 more
In this paper we first review the results obtained by the INTEGRAL mission in the domain of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), thanks to the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System, which is able to deliver near real-time alerts for GRBs detected within the IBIS field of view. More than 120 GRBs have been detected to date and we summarize their properties here. In the …