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Collapsed Objects and Galactic X-Ray Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

B. A. Peterson*
Affiliation:
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory, Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University

Extract

The observation of the X-ray sky from balloons, rockets, and satellites has led to the discovery of more than 100 X-ray sources. Optical and radio identifications have been made for about a dozen of these. A few X-ray sources are of extra-galactic origin, but the majority are objects in the Galaxy.

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Invited Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1973

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