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Description
Compact stellar remnants like white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes are important probes of matter under extreme conditions of gravity, density, temperature and magnetic fields. A large fraction of these stellar remnants reside in binary systems providing insights into massive star evolution, accretion and some outstanding questions in astrophysics like progenitors of SN 1a and gravitational waves.
A better knowledge of the origin, evolution, and feedback onto the interstellar medium from these systems is also essential to understand the evolution of the Galaxy as a whole. In this talk I will review our understanding of compact stellar remnants in the Milky Way. The field of study has been especially revolutionised with the eROSITA all-sky surveys (eRASSs), that will for the first time unveil the X-ray faint, most populated end of the Galactic population of these compact objects. Their identification has been further facilitated by several multi-wavelength follow-up campaigns and facilities that aided to pinpoint their nature.
