Modulated High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from the Microquasar Cygnus X-3

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Dec 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009sci...326.1512f&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 326, Issue 5959, pp. 1512- (2009).

Physics

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Microquasars are accreting black holes or neutron stars in binary systems with associated relativistic jets. Despite their frequent outburst activity, they have never been unambiguously detected emitting high-energy gamma rays. The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected a variable high-energy source coinciding with the position of the x-ray binary and microquasar Cygnus X-3. Its identification with Cygnus X-3 is secured by the detection of its orbital period in gamma rays, as well as the correlation of the LAT flux with radio emission from the relativistic jets of Cygnus X-3. The gamma-ray emission probably originates from within the binary system, opening new areas in which to study the formation of relativistic jets.

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