CYG X-3 - Gamma rays from a magnetic accretion disk

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Aug 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977natur.268..420m&link_type=abstract

Nature, vol. 268, Aug. 4, 1977, p. 420, 421.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Binary Stars, Gamma Rays, Neutron Stars, Stellar Mass Accretion, X Ray Stars, Black Holes (Astronomy), Compton Effect, Lines Of Force, Particle Acceleration, Photons, Relativistic Particles, Stellar Magnetic Fields

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The recent observation reported by Lamb et al. (1977) concerning the gamma rays from Cygnus X-3 has been taken as support for the suggestion that the X-ray emission is produced by a very young pulsar in a short period binary system. It is shown that the observed gamma-ray luminosity can be produced by an accretion disk around a nonmagnetic neutron star or low-mass black hole, in a magnetized corona which accelerates relativistic electrons that decay by inverse Compton losses modified through the photon-photon and pair-annihilation processes

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