An ultra-relativistic outflow from a neutron star accreting gas from a companion

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6971, 2004, Pages 222-224

  Fender, Rob ^a   Wu, Kinwah ^b   Johnston, Helen ^c   Tzioumis, Tasso ^d   Jonker, Peter ^e   Spencer, Ralph ^f   Van Der Klis, Michiel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; SPACE RESEARCH;

BINARY STELLAR SYSTEMS; BLACK HOLES; NEUTRON STARS;

ASTRONOMY;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ENERGY TRANSFER; GAS; NEUTRON; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 1642512387     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02137     Document Type: Article

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