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

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dc.creatorParedes, J. M.
dc.creatorMarti, J.
dc.creatorRibo, M.
dc.creatorMassi, M.
dc.date2001-02-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:47:18Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:47:18Z
dc.descriptionMicroquasars 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.
dc.description13 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX, uses aaspp4.sty. Published in Science, 2000 June 30. Related papers may be found at http://www.am.ub.es/~josep/papers/index.html
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102235
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102235
dc.identifierScience288:2340,2000
dc.identifierdoi:10.1126/science.288.5475.2340
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/183488
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleDiscovery of a High-Energy Gamma-Ray-Emitting Persistent Microquasar
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