A POPULATION EXPLOSION: The Nature & Evolution of X-ray Binaries in Diverse Environments

Conference on Population : The Nature and Evolution of X-Ray Binaries in Diverse Environments

Reba M. Bandyopadhyay, University of Florida, Department of Astronomy, Gainesville, FL, USA ; Stefanie Wachter, California Institute of Technology, Spitzer Science Center, Pasadena, CA, USA ; Dawn Gelino, California Institute of Technology, Michelson Science Center, Pasadena, CA, USA ; Christopher R. Gelino, California Institute of Technology, Spitzer Science Center, Pasadena, CA, USA

Conference Location and Date: St. Pete Beach, Florida, 28 October - 2 November 2007

Subseries: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Published May 2008; ISBN 978-0-7354-0530-1, One Volume, Print; 442 pages; 7x10 inches; $221.00
CD-ROM VERSION (sold separately): ISBN 978-0-7354-0529-5; $139.00
ISBN: 978-0-7354-0529-5, CD-ROM (sold separately) 139

Readership: Astronomers/astrophysicists, especially those interested in the endpoints of stellar evolution and high-energy astrophysics. These readers are most likely to be employed as academics - professors, research scientists, and graduate students - at universities, astronomical observatories, and government research laboratories (e.g. NASA). This was an international conference and would be of interest to professional astronomers worldwide.

Technological advances in X-ray astronomy have recently led to the discovery of a large number of previously undetected accreting binaries, increasing by an order of magnitude their known population in the Galaxy. This meeting addressed the current state of observational and theoretical research into the X-ray binary population as a whole, including both well-studied systems and the newly discovered populations, and examined the interaction of X-ray binaries with their environment within our own Galaxy and in external galaxies.

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