A neutron star with a massive progenitor in Westerlund

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 636, Issue 1 II, 2006, Pages

  Muno, Michael P ^a,b   Clark, J Simon ^c   Crowther, Paul A ^d   Dougherty, Sean M ^e   De Grus, Richard ^d   Law, Casey ^f   Mcmillan, Stephen L W ^g   Morris, Mark R ^b   Negueruela, Ignacio ^h   Pooley, David ^i,j   Zwart, Simon Portegies ^i,j   Yusef Zadeh, Farhad ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^j UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Open clusters and associations: individual (Westerlund 1); Stars: neutron; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645002676     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/499776     Document Type: Article

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