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Gamma-ray binaries: pulsars in disguise?

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: Context.LS 5039 and LS I+61°303 are unique amongst high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXB) for their spatially-resolved radio emission and their counterpart at >GeV gamma-ray energies, canonically attributed to non-thermal particles in an accretion-powered relativistic jet. The only other HMXB known to emit very high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays, PSR B1259-63, harbours a non-accreting millisecond pulsar.

Source: Astronomy and Astrophysics

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20054779

Author: G. Dubus

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, École Polytechnique, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie

Language: English

Topic: Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2016271096

FWCI: 13.9

Cites: 82

Cited by: 282

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