An outburst of geV gamma-ray emission from centaurus X-3

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 483, Issue 1, 1997, Pages L49-L52

  Vestrand, W Thomas ^a   Sreekumar, P ^a   Mori, Masaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; Binaries: eclipsing; Gamma rays: observations; Pulsars: individual (Centaurus X 3)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002778517     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/310722/pdf     Document Type: Article

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