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- 1Chowdhury, Md. Mizanul Huq
- 1Hattawi, Asma
- 1Pavlovskii, Konstantin
- 1Ridder, Margaret
- 1Zhao, Jiaqi
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Fall 2021
AR Sco is the first known white dwarf pulsar and currently there is no definitive model for its emission or evolution. This type of binary system could be a critical step in the formation of magnetic cataclysmic variables, a type of accreting white dwarf/M dwarf binary system. In this thesis, I...
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Fall 2016
Low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) are systems of compact stellar remnants accreting from a low mass companion star. These systems show various levels of mass transfer on various timescales. Many aspects of accretion in these systems are still not fully understood, specifically the emission...
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Exotic binaries in Galactic globular clusters: identification, classification, and their formation
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Globular clusters (GCs) are dense and massive stellar populations, which provide a unique environment where the high stellar density facilitates frequent dynamical encounters, creating many exotic binaries. These exotic binaries generally have short orbits and often harbour compact objects,...
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Spring 2016
In this thesis we study MT from giant and subgiant donors in binary stars. We develop a MT simulation framework based on the MESA set of stellar libraries, which is suitable to study extremely high MT rates and predict the stability of MT. We find that the MT from giant donors is much more stable...
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Fall 2021
In this thesis we study X-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the Galactic globular clusters (GCs) to better understand the X-ray emission from them. We analyze 55 ks and 290 ks of Chandra X-ray observations of the clusters M13 and Omega Cen, respectively. We find confident X-ray counterparts to...
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Spring 2019
Cataclysmic variables (CVs) are binary stellar systems with a white dwarf (WD) and a companion star that is losing mass to the WD. When the magnetic field of the WD is strong enough, the accreting matter follows its magnetic field lines then falls near a magnetic pole. This leads to emission of...