AbstractThis article briefly reviews first the progress of spectroscopy in X-ray astronomy from proportional counters, a major instrument in early phase of X-ray astronomy, to gas scintillation proportional counters, X-ray CCD cameras, transmission and reflection gratings, and finally to X-ray micro-calorimeters. As a typical example of spectral features observed from high mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), the spectra observed from Vela X-1 with Chandra grating spectrometers are then presented and compared with computer simulations for high mass binary systems.
High resolution spectroscopy of X-ray emission from high mass X-ray binaries
Advances in Space Research ; 38 , 12 ; 2737-2741
2006-04-12
5 pages
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Electronic Resource
English
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