A four-year XMM-Newton / Chandra monitoring campaign of the Galactic centre: Analysing the X-ray transients

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 545, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Degenaar, N ^a,b   Wijnands, R ^a   Cackett, E M ^c   Homan, J ^d   In'T Zand, J J M ^e   Kuulkers, E ^f   MacCarone, T J ^g   Van Der Klis, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^f EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

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

ELECTRON SOURCES; GALAXIES; LIGHT SOURCES; LUMINANCE; STARS; TRANSIENTS; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAY OPTICS;

X RAYS;

EID: 84866061769     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219470     Document Type: Article

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