Two populations of X-ray pulsars produced by two types of supernova

Nature

Volumn 479, Issue 7373, 2011, Pages 372-375

  Knigge, Christian ^a   Coe, Malcolm J ^a   Podsiadlowski, Philipp ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECCENTRICITY; ELECTRON; MAGNESIUM; NEON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION; NEUTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 81555199960     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10529     Document Type: Article

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