The INTEGRAL Galactic bulge monitoring program: The first 1.5 years

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 466, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 595-618

  Kuulkers, E ^a   Shaw, S E ^b,c   Paizis, A ^d   Chenevez, J ^e   Brandt, S ^e   Courvoisier, T J L ^c,f   Domingo, A ^g   Ebisawa, K ^h   Kretschmar, P ^a   Markwardt, C B ^i,j   Mowlavi, N ^c   Oosterbroek, T ^k   Orr, A ^k   Risquez D ^g   Sanchez Fernandez, C ^a   Wijnands, R ^l  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d INAF IASF MILANO   (Italy)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

^g INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

^h JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^j NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^k EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^l UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

more..

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Binaries: close; Binaries: general; Galaxy: bulge; Stars: neutron; X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; NEUTRONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACE RESEARCH; VISIBILITY; WORLD WIDE WEB; X RAYS;

ACCRETION DISKS; BINARIES; GALACTIC BULGE REGION;

GALAXIES;

EID: 34248173088     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20066651     Document Type: Article

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