The two-hour orbit of a binary millisecond X-ray pulsar

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6691, 1998, Pages 346-348

  Chakrabarty, Deepto ^a   Morgan, Edward H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PHYSICS; X RAY;

EID: 0032560854     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/28561     Document Type: Article

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