Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients - a short review
Abstract
I present a brief up-to-date review of the current understanding of Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients, with an emphasis on the observational point of view. After more than a decade since their discovery, a remarkable progress has been made in getting the picture of their phenomenology at X-ray energies. However, a similar in-depth investigation of the properties of the supergiant companions is needed, but has started more recently. A multifrequency approach is the key to fully understand the physical mechanism driving the SFXT behaviour, still under debate.
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@article{arxiv.1710.03943,
title = {Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients - a short review},
author = {Lara Sidoli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.03943},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
14 pages 4 figures. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the "XII Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources Workshop", held on 12-17 June 2017, Palermo, Italy (PoS(MULTIF2017)052). The figures have been modified following the referee report