Manu
Linares
I work on X-ray binaries, primarily those containing a low magnetic field neutron star. These are highly energetic and rapidly changing X-ray emitters powered by the gravitational energy of matter that falls onto the neutron star, in a process known as accretion. By studying in detail their different accretion states or "modes", I hope to learn how accretion flows behave under strong gravitational fields. I am also interested in and doing research on thermonuclear bursts, which offer a direct view of the neutron star's photosphere and a window to the physical processes at work thereon (and therein!).
- Research interests: neutron stars, black holes, X-ray binaries, accretion flows and accretion states, fast X-ray variability, thermonuclear bursts, nuclear burning regimes.
- My CV (November 2011):
- List of publications
- You
can download my full PhD
thesis here
- NEW: LIST OF ACCRETING MILLISECOND PULSARS
- new: TERZAN 5: A SHOWCASE OF BURNING REGIMES
- new: Terzan 5 in the media: MIT news - NASA - HEASARC-PoW - Science Daily - Kavli - SINC (Sp.) - ABC (Sp.)
- new: The faint ``heartbeats' of IGR J17091--3624: an exceptional black-hole candidate
- new: Terzan 5: On the cooling tails of thermonuclear X-ray bursts
- *Circinus X-1: The return of the bursts
- *The (once-)shortest burst recurrence time, found in 4U 1636-536
- *Recent Swift observations of SAX J1750.8-2900
- *Capture of a long thermonuclear burst from XTE J1701-407
- *Neutron
star or black hole?
Come back soon!
