Konstantin Postnov

TL;DR: The formation and evolution of compact binary stars consisting of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes are reviewed, including their role as progenitors of cosmologically-important thermonuclear SN Ia and AM CVn-stars, which are thought to be the best verification binary GW sources for future low-frequency GW space interferometers.

TL;DR: In this article, a model for quasi-spherical subsonic accretio n onto slowly rotating magnetized neutron stars is constructed, where the accr eting matter subsonically settles down onto the rotating magnetosphere forming an extended quasi-static shell, mediating the angular momentum removal from the rotating neutron star magnetosphere during spindown episodes by large-scale convective motions.

TL;DR: The X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer (XIPE) as discussed by the authors is a mission dedicated to Xray Astronomy which is in a competitive phase A as fourth medium size mission of ESA (M4).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of ten years of repeated measurements of the Cyclotron Resonance Scattering Feature (CRSF) in the spectrum of the binary X-ray pulsar Her X-1 and report the discovery of a positive correlation of the centroid energy of this absorption feature in pulse phase averaged spectra with source luminosity.

TL;DR: In this paper, Monte Carlo calculations of the modern scenario for binary stellar evolution, and taking account of the spin evolution of magnetized compact stars (the "scenario machine") were used to compute for the first time the number of galactic binary pulsars with different companion types [OB star, white dwarf (WD), neutron star (NS), black hole (BH), or planet] assuming various phenomenological distributions for kick velocities of newborn NSs.