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.


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    Title :

    High resolution spectroscopy of X-ray emission from high mass X-ray binaries


    Contributors:
    Nagase, F. (author) / Watanabe, S. (author)

    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 38 , 12 ; 2737-2741


    Publication date :

    2006-04-12


    Size :

    5 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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