Using the X-ray dust scattering halo of Cygnus X-1 to determine distance and dust distributions

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 738, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Xiang, Jingen ^a   Lee, Julia C ^a   Nowak, Michael A ^b   Wilms, Jörn ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

dust, extinction; scattering; X rays: binaries; X rays: individual (Cyg X 1); X rays: ISM

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052719452     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/738/1/78     Document Type: Article

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