Discovery of a 3.6 hr eclipsing luminous X-ray binary in the galaxy NGC 4214

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 650, Issue 2 I, 2006, Pages 872-878

  Ghosh, Kajal K ^a   Rappaport, Saul ^b   Tennant, Allyn F ^c   Swartz, Douglas A ^a   Pooley, David ^d,e   Madhusudhan, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Binaries: eclipsing; Binaries: general; Galaxies: individual (NGC 4214); Galaxies: starburst; Stars: Wolf Rayet; X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845235880     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/507124     Document Type: Article

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