On the nature of the bright short-period X-ray source in the Circinus galaxy field

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 605, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 360-367

  Weisskopf, Martin C ^a   Wu, Kinwah ^b   Tennant, Allyn F ^a   Swartz, Douglas A ^a   Ghosh, Kajal K ^a  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binaries: eclipsing; Black hole physics; Galaxies: individual (Circinus); X rays: binaries; X rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 2542591756     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/381307     Document Type: Article

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