Hercules X-1

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2387v&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2387. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Stars, Individual Stellar Objects

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Hercules X-1 (Her X-1) is a pulsating x-ray source detected with the first x-ray satellite, UHURU, in 1971. It is an accreting X-RAY BINARY system consisting of a NEUTRON STAR that rotates every 1.24 s while orbiting a `normal' stellar companion every 1.7 days; the misalignment of the magnetic axis relative to the rotation axis results in a distinctive pulse profile in x-rays. The 1.7 day orbital ...

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