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Variable X-Ray Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Edwin M. Kellogg*
Affiliation:
Cambridge, USA

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There are at least five types of variable galactic X-ray sources (i. e. „stars“) known:

Pulsar, as NP0532

Transient Sources as Cen XR-2

Quasi-periodic rapid variables, as Cyg X-1

Periodic rapid variables, as Cen X-3

Aperiodic variables, as Sco X-1

Type
III. Rapid and Ultrarapid Variables (Including X-Rax Sources)
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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