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Accretion Disks and Coronae in the X-Ray Flashlight

Maccarone, Thomas J.; Li, Jian; Kretschmar, Peter +10 more

Plasma accreted onto the surface of a neutron star can ignite due to unstable thermonuclear burning and produce a bright flash of X-ray emission called a Type-I X-ray burst. Such events are very common; thousands have been observed to date from over a hundred accreting neutron stars. The intense, often Eddington-limited, radiation generated in the…