Gravitationally redshifted absorption lines in the x-ray burst spectra of a neutron star

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6911, 2002, Pages 51-54

  Cottam, J ^a   Paerels, F ^b   Mendez, M ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; GRAVITATION; NEUTRONS; X RAYS;

SPECTRAL LINES;

ASTRONOMY;

ABSORPTION; ASTROPHYSICS; EQUATION OF STATE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RADIATION; GRAVITY; MASS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

EID: 0037038401     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01159     Document Type: Article

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