Accreting Binaries - Nature, formation, and evolution

This book describes the nature, formation and evolution of accreting binaries, showing how extensive observations, accompanied by heavy simulations, allow astronomers to better understand the energetic phenomena occurring in these intriguing systems. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this book provides an introduction to the topic, first describing the astrophysical basics of both single and binary stars, before moving on to detail the different types of accreting binary systems.

About the author

Sylvain Chaty is Professor of Astrophysics at the AIM Astrophysics Institute, University of Paris, France. He obtained his PhD in Astrophysics and Space Science in 1998 at the Univ. Paris Saclay, on Multi-wavelength Study of Galactic high-energy binary sources. His Habilitation thesis in 2007 was entitled From microquasars to enshrouded binary systems: the Universe of extreme sources. He is an Elected member of Science Faculty Council of University of Paris, is a member of the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, and has organised numerous workshops on binary systems. He has 332 research publications, 8700 citations and an H-index of 47.

Product details

• Authors: Sylvain Chaty, Sylvain (Professor Chaty
• Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2022
• EAN: 9780750338851
• ISBN: 978-0-7503-3885-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 636 g
• Illustrations: With figures in colour and in black and white; 75 Illustrations
• Series: AAS-IOP Astronomy
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy