Long-term X-ray monitoring of LS i +61°303: Analysis of spectral variability and flares

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 733, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Li, Jian ^a   Torres, Diego F ^b,c   Zhang, Shu ^a   Chen, Yupeng ^a   Hadasch, Daniela ^c   Ray, Paul S ^d   Kretschmar, Peter ^e   Rea, Nanda ^c   Wang, Jianmin ^a,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DE L ESPAI CSIC IEEC   (Spain)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956357930     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/733/2/89     Document Type: Article

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