Identification of a population of X-ray-emitting massive stars in the Galactic plane

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 727, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Anderson, Gemma E ^a   Gaensler, B M ^a   Kaplan, David L ^b,l   Posselt, Bettina ^c   Slane, Patrick O ^c   Murray, Stephen S ^c   Mauerhan, Jon C ^d   Benjamin, Robert A ^e   Brogan, Crystal L ^f   Chakrabarty, Deepto ^g   Drake, Jeremy J ^c   Drew, Janet E ^h   Grindlay, Jonathan E ^c   Hong, Jaesub ^c   Lazio, T Joseph W ⁱ   Lee, Julia C ^c   Steeghs, Danny T H ^j   Van Kerkwijk, Marten H ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

^f NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^l UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Stars: winds, outflows; Stars: Wolf Rayet; Supergiants; X rays: binaries; X rays: individual (AX J163252 4746, AX J184738 0156, AX J144701 5919, AX J144547 5931); X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891171833     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/727/2/105     Document Type: Article

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