The 1996 soft state transition of Cygnus X-1

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 477, Issue 2 PART II, 1997, Pages

  Zhang, S N ^a,b   Cui, W ^c   Harmon, B A ^a   Paciesas, W S ^a,d   Remillard, R E ^c   Van Paradijs, J ^d,e  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Stars: individual (Cygnus X 1); X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744461838     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/310530     Document Type: Article

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