Accretion onto Neutron Stars: Hydrodynamics and Nucleosynthesis 

Moreno Guzmán, Fermín (Date of defense: 2009-11-25)

In the middle of the 70s, some authors suggested that accretion of hydrogen and helium rich material by a neutron star in a binary system, where the companion star would have low mass, could explain thermonuclear bursts ...