Discovery of a High-Energy Gamma-Ray-Emitting Persistent Microquasar

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2001-02-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102235v1

Science288:2340,2000

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX, uses aaspp4.sty. Published in Science, 2000 June 30. Related papers may be found at http://www.a

Scientific paper

10.1126/science.288.5475.2340

Microquasars are stellar x-ray binaries that behave as a scaled down version of extragalactic quasars. The star LS 5039 is a new microquasar system with apparent persistent ejection of relativistic plasma at a 3 kiloparsec distance from the sun. It may also be associated with a gamma-ray source discovered by the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on board the COMPTON-Gamma Ray Observatory satellite. Before the discovery of LS 5039, merely a handful of microquasars had been identified in the Galaxy, and none of them was detected in high-energy gamma-rays.

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