To appear as Chapter 8 in "Compact Stellar X-ray Sources", eds. W.H.G. Lewin and M. van der Klis, Cambridge University Press
astro-ph/0404136

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GLOBULAR CLUSTER X-RAY SOURCES

Frank Verbunt

Astronomical Institute, Postbox 80.000, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands

Walter H.G. Lewin

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Physics Department, Center for Space Research, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: SOME HISTORICAL REMARKS

THE LUMINOUS GLOBULAR CLUSTER X-RAY SOURCES IN THE GALAXY

Notes on individual sources

THE GLOBULAR CLUSTER SOURCES OUTSIDE THE GALAXY

Elliptical galaxies

Spiral Galaxies

Comparison and interpretation

Comparison between field and cluster sources

LOW-LUMINOSITY X-RAY SOURCES

Low-luminosity low-mass X-ray binaries

Millisecond pulsars

Cataclysmic variables

Magnetically active binaries

Comparing clusters

SOME REMARKS ON EVOLUTION AND FORMATION