Review on latest progress on supergiant fast X-ray transients and future direction

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 88-94

  Sidoli, Lara ^a  

^a INAF IASF MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accretion and accretion disks; Supergiants; X ray binaries; X ray sources

Indexed keywords

SPACE TELESCOPES; STARS; X RAY OPTICS;

ACCRETION AND ACCRETION DISKS; FUTURE PERSPECTIVES; GALACTIC TRANSIENTS; LONG-TERM BEHAVIOR; NEUTRON STAR MAGNETIC FIELDS; SUPERGIANTS; X RAY BINARIES; X-RAY SOURCES;

X RAYS;

EID: 79957624283     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2011.03.004     Document Type: Review

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