Title: Exploring the Population of Compact Stellar X-ray Sources in Our Milky Way Exploring the Population of Compact Stellar X-ray Sources in Our Milky Way List of Tables
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xvii Chapter 1 Motivation 1 Chapter 2 Stellar evolution, Compact Stars, Accretion discs and X-ray binaries 3 2.1 Stellar evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1.1 Star Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1.1.1 Protostars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1.1.2 Stellar Mass limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.2 Main-sequence stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.1.3 Giant Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.1.4 Death of stars like the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.1.5 Death of massive stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2.1.6 The characteristic timescales of stellar evolution . . . . . . . 18 2.1.6.1 Dynamic timescale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.1.6.2 Thermal timescale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.1.6.3 Nuclear timescale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.1.7 The evolution of a star on a Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.2 Compact stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 2.2.1 White dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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