Simultaneous Optical / X-Ray Bursts

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The majority of the bright galactic X-ray sources are mass-exchanging binary stars in which anormal companion star is transferring matter to its compact companion, in most cases a neutron star. A neutron star is an extremely dense concentration of matter: a mass equal to that of the sun (diameter 1.4 million km) is concentrated in a sphere with a diameter of only about 20 km. The gravitational force near such a star is very strong, and, upon falling on the neutron star surface, the infalling matter reaches a velocity of about half that of light. The kinetic energy of this matter is transformed into heat (the temperature reaches values in excess of 10 million degrees) and radiated in the form of X-rays.

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