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The Binary X-Ray Stars – the Observational Picture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Herbert Gursky  and
Ethan Schreier
Herbert Gursky
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard College Observatory/Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.
Ethan Schreier
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard College Observatory/Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.

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When X-ray sources in the galaxy were discovered in 1962 (Giacconi et al., 1962) it was only possible to speculate on their nature, which centered on supernova and cosmic-ray phenomena since these were the only very energetic events known. In particular, the discovery of an X-ray source associated with the Crab Nebula led to the idea that the emission might be the thermal radiation from the surface of a hot, neutron star. However, it was soon demonstrated (Bowyer et al., 1964) that a neutron star could not be responsible for the bulk of the X-radiation from the Crab, and it was not possible to exclude highly pathological conditions in otherwise ordinary stellar systems as being responsible for the X-ray sources (cf. Hayakawa and Matsuoka, 1964).

Type
Part 9 / Variable X-Ray Sources
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 67: Variable Stars and Stellar Evolution , 1975 , pp. 411 - 464
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1975 

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