To be published in "Compact Stellar X-ray Sources", Cambridge University Press, eds. W. Lewin & M. van der Klis
astro-ph/0307077

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COMPACT STELLAR X-RAY SOURCES IN NORMAL GALAXIES

G. Fabbiano ¹ & N. E. White ²

¹ Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge MA 02138, USA
² NASA-GSFC, Code 660, Greenbelt MD 20771, USA

Table of Contents

X-RAY BINARY (XRB) POPULATIONS IN SPIRAL GALAXIES

M31

M81

XRBs in Actively Starforming Galaxies

ULTRA LUMINOUS X-RAY SOURCES - ULXs

Spectra and spectral variability

Intermediate Mass Black Holes or Beamed XRBs?

XRBs IN ELLIPTICAL AND S0 GALAXIES

ULXs in Early-Type Galaxies

X-ray sources and Globular Clusters

X-ray Luminosity Functions

MULTI-WAVELENGTH CORRELATIONS

THE X-RAY EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES