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An Image of a Highly Relativistic Jet from a Large Flare in the X-Ray Binary Cyg X-3
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
A VLBA image of the X-ray binary Cyg X-3 made two days after a 10 Jy radio flare shows a one-sided, curved jet with a size scale of ≈60 mas. This seems to indicate a jet with a velocity of ≥0.89c with a inclination of a few degrees to the line of site, and indicates that some of events where Cyg X-3 flares above 3 Jy may come from highly relativistic jets close to the line of sight.
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