Published January 3, 2022 | Version v1

Studying the age of supergiant companions in the magnetized X-ray binaries

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  • 1. Al Balqa Applied University

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  • 1. Al Balqa Applied University

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It has been proposed multiple times to use the neutron star (NS) in high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) as an orbiting X-ray probe embedded in the wind-fed of its supergiant (SG) companion in order to constrain the stellar line-driven wind from the SG. We demonstrate how to combine various observables of HMXBs from the X-ray accretion luminosity produced by the wind-fed NS, in order to estimate and constrain the age of the donors. This would help us to study the stellar evolution track for each donor model. Since the evolution of massive stars is essentially determined by mass loss, and that direct measures of mass-loss rates suffer from important uncertainties due to the unknown micro-structure of the wind.

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Conference paper: 25552 (PMID)