X-Ray Binaries and Recycled Pulsars, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992 Nato Science Series C: Series, Vol. 377

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on X-Ray Binaries and the Formation of Binary and Millisecond Radio Pulsars, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A., Januari 21-25, 1991

The orbital periods of low-mass X-ray binaries.- ROSAT - Early results.- Black holes in binary systems.- Recent results from GINGA on X-ray binaries: selected topics.- Z and Atoll sources as a clue to the evolution of low-mass X-ray binaries.- X-ray diagnostics of accretion disks.- SIGHT: A scintillation imaging gas-filled hard X-ray telescope.- Millisecond pulsars in globular clusters.- Recent observations of recycled pulsars.- Discovery of two millisecond pulsars at high Galactic latitudes.- Millisecond pulsars and quiescent LMXBs.- Continuum observations of recycled pulsars.- Millisecond pulsar spectra.- Searching for pulsars in globular clusters: the Parkes/Jodrell Bank surveys.- Discovery and timing of radio pulsars in globular clusters M13 and M15.- A new pulsar-supernova remnant association.- New pulsar proper motion results from Jodrell Bank.- The evolution of the optical remnant of Kepler’s SN.- Accretion induced collapse.- Accretion-induced collapse of white dwarfs.- Some problems in the theory of isolated pulsars.- Relativistic shock waves and the excitation of plerions.- Neutrino driven neutron star formation.- Formation and evolution of neutron star binaries.- From low-mass X-ray binaries to binary and millisecond pulsars.- Common envelope evolution and formation of cataclysmic variables and low-mass X-ray binaries.- The common envelope evolution of massive stars.- The evolution of Her X-1 and why Her X-1 systems are very rare.- Collisions between a white dwarf and a main-sequence star.- New directions in globular cluster modeling.- Statistics of pulsars in globular clusters.- CVs in globular clusters: clues to compact binary production.- Evaporation of companions in VLMXBs and in binary millisecond pulsars.- Radiation-driven evolution of low-mass X-raybinaries and the formation of millisecond pulsars.- A new mechanism for angular momentum loss in very low-mass X-ray binaries and binary millisecond pulsars.- X-ray dippers, eclipsing pulsars and three-dimensional orbits.- From millisecond pulsars to low-mass X-ray binaries.- A determination of the radio-luminosity function and relative number of globular cluster pulsars.- Pulsar velocities and their origins.- Statistical studies of the local pulsar population.- Neutron star structure and superfluidity: a 1991 perspective.- Magnetic field evolution from neutron star crust breaking.- Diagnostics of disk-magnetosphere interaction in neutron star binaries.- Quasi Periodic Oscillations and Sound.- “Experimental” discovery of a tilt instability in standard accretion disks around luminous X-ray sources.- 6 Hz quasi-periodic oscillations from low-mass X-ray binaries: the sound of an accretion disk?.- Magnetic flares near black holes.- Concluding remarks.- Auhtors Index.- Object Index.