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Contents<br />

Resum <strong>de</strong> la tesi:<br />

Descobriment i estudi <strong>de</strong>l microquàsar LS 5039 i<br />

una cerca <strong>de</strong> nous microquàsars vii<br />

1 Introduction and background 1<br />

1.1 X-ray binaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

1.1.1 High mass X-ray binaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />

1.1.2 Low mass X-ray binaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />

1.1.3 Radio emitting X-ray binaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />

1.2 Microquasars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />

1.2.1 Projection and special relativity effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />

1.2.2 Quasars and microquasars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />

1.2.3 Known microquasars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />

1.2.4 Accretion disk and jet formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />

1.2.5 Black hole states and radio emission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22<br />

1.3 Motivation of the thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />

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