Abstract After more than two years of operation, the imaging γ-ray SIGMA telescope has accumulated several days of observation toward well known X-ray binaries. Four bright sources falling in this category have been detected so far: The pulsar GX 1+4 near the center of our galaxy, the stellar wind accreting system 4U 1700-377, and the black hole candidates Cygnus X-1 and GX 339-4. Moreover, SIGMA have observed three transients sources, which turned out to be also hard X-ray sources : The burster KS 1731-260, Tra X-1, and the Musca Nova. The properties of these systems in the SIGMA domain will be reviewed and a spectral distinction between black holes and neutron stars will be sketched.


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    Titel :

    SIGMA observations of hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray emission from X-ray binaries


    Beteiligte:
    Laurent, P. (Autor:in) / Claret, A. (Autor:in) / Lebrun, F. (Autor:in) / Paul, J. (Autor:in) / Dennis, M. (Autor:in) / Barret, D. (Autor:in) / Bouchet, L. (Autor:in) / Mandrou, P. (Autor:in) / Sunyaev, R. (Autor:in) / Churazov, E. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 13 , 12 ; 139-148


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1993-01-01


    Format / Umfang :

    10 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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