Low-mass X-ray binaries as the source of the very soft X-ray emission in the X-ray-faintest early-type galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 494, Issue 1 PART II, 1998, Pages

  Irwin, Jimmy A ^a   Sarazin, Craig L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: ISM; X rays: galaxies; X rays: ISM; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044436884     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/311157     Document Type: Article

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