A four-year baseline Swift study of enigmatic X-ray transients located near the Galactic center

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 524, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Degenaar, N ^a   Wijnands, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

accretion, accretion disks; Galaxy: center; stars: neutron; X rays: binaries; X rays: general

Indexed keywords

DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); GALAXIES; LUMINANCE; NEUTRONS; STARS; TELESCOPES; TRANSIENTS; X RAY OPTICS;

ACCRETION , ACCRETION DISKS; GALAXY: CENTER; STARS: NEUTRON; X-RAYS: BINARIES; X-RAYS: GENERAL;

X RAYS;

EID: 78649524236     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201015322     Document Type: Article

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