The galactic distribution of black hole candidates in low-mass X-ray binary systems

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 473, Issue 1 PART II, 1996, Pages

  White, N E ^a   Van Paradijs, J ^b,c  

^a Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: Close; Galaxy: Kinematics and dynamics; X rays: General

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002435246     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/310380     Document Type: Article

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