The diffuse emission and a variable ultraluminous X-ray point source in the elliptical galaxy NGC 3379

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 635, Issue 2 I, 2005, Pages 1053-1061

  David, Laurence P ^a   Jones, Christine ^a   Forman, William ^a   Murray, Steven S ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: individual (NGC 3379); Galaxies: ISM; X rays: binaries; X rays: galaxies; X rays: ISM

Indexed keywords

EID: 30644472186     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/497685     Document Type: Article

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