Feeding the spinning top - Accretion-induced torques onto young and strongly magnetized neutron stars in high-mass X-ray binaries

Topics

· X-ray emission from neutron star magnetic poles.

· Toy-models of accretion-induced torques.

· X-ray pulse timing.

· Be X-ray binaries: outbursts and quiescence.

· Numerical simulations.

· Analogies with other systems (millisecond pulsars, T Tauri stars, black holes…).