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Radio Emitting X-Ray Binary Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R. E. Spencer
R. E. Spencer*
Affiliation:
University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield, SK11 9DL, UK

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Some of the most astrophysically interesting objects are found among the radio-emitting X-ray binary stars (REXRB). The class includes the well-studied objects such as SS 433, Cyg X-3 and Sco X-1. The recent discoveries of relativistic ejection of radio knots in the X-ray transients 1915+105 (Mirabel & Rodriguez 1994) and 1655–40 (Hjellming & Rupen 1995) well illustrate the extreme nature of some of these objects.

X-ray binaries are semi-detached binary stars in which matter is transfered from a more or less normal star onto a neutron star or black hole. X-ray satellites have detected large numbers of these objects (193 in a recent catalogue by van Paradijs 1995). However only a small fraction of these are known to have radio emission (e.g. Hjellming 1988).

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