Microquasars in the GeV-TeV era
Abstract
The discovery of non-thermal X-ray emission from the jets of some X-ray binaries, and especially the discovery of GeV-TeV gamma-rays in some of them, provide a clear evidence of very efficient acceleration of particles to multi-TeV energies in these systems. The observations demonstrate the richness of non-thermal phenomena in compact galactic objects containing relativistic outflows or winds produced near black holes and neutron stars. We review here some of the main observational results on the non-thermal emission from X-ray binaries as well as some of the proposed scenarios to explain the production of high-energy gamma-rays.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1001.4473,
title = {Microquasars in the GeV-TeV era},
author = {J. M. Paredes and V. Zabalza},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.4473},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
8 pages, 1 figure. Invited review at the "7th Agile Meeting and The Bright Gamma-Ray Sky", held in Frascati, Italy, 29 September to 1 October 2009