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Centaurus X-3 is a well-studied high-mass accreting X-ray binary and a variable source of high energy gamma rays with energies from 100 MeV to 1 TeV. Previous results have suggested that the origin of the gamma rays is not the immediate…

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TeV Gamma Ray Emission from Cen X-3

Cen X-3 is a well-studied high-mass accreting X-ray binary and a variable source of high energy gamma rays from 100 MeV to 1 TeV. The object has been extensively monitored with the University of Durham Mark 6 telescope. Results of…

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Escape of VHE gamma-rays from close massive binary Cen X-3

We consider propagation of very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays in the radiation field of a massive star in the binary system Cen X-3, which has been reported as a source of gamma-ray photons in the GeV and TeV energies. VHE gamma-rays or…

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Gamma rays from compact binary system

Some of the very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray sources detected with the modern generation of Cherenkov telescopes have been identified with previously known X-ray binary systems. These detections demonstrate the richness of non-thermal…

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Absorption of high-energy gamma rays in Cygnus X-3

The microquasar Cygnus X-3 was detected at high energies by the gamma-ray space telescopes AGILE and Fermi. The gamma-ray emission is transient, modulated with the orbital period and seems related to major radio flares, i.e. to the…

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Cygnus X-3: A variable petaelectronvolt gamma-ray source

We report the discovery of variable $\gamma$-rays up to petaelectronvolt from Cygnus X-3, an iconic X-ray binary. The $\gamma$-ray signal was detected with a statistical significance of approximately 10 $\sigma$ by the Large High Altitude…

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Discovery of very high energy gamma-rays associated with an X-ray binary

X-ray binaries are composed of a normal star in orbit around a neutron star or stellar-mass black hole. Radio and X-ray observations have led to the presumption that some X-ray binaries called microquasars behave as scaled down active…

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The discovery of very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray emitting X-ray binaries has triggered an intense effort to better understand the particle acceleration, absorption, and emission mechanisms in compact binary systems, which provide variable…

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A High Statistics Search for Ultra-High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from Cygnus X-3 and Hercules X-1

We have carried out a high statistics (2 Billion events) search for ultra-high energy gamma-ray emission from the X-ray binary sources Cygnus X-3 and Hercules X-1. Using data taken with the CASA-MIA detector over a five year period…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 MIA Collaboration

Gamma-ray binaries: microquasars and binary systems with pulsar

Several binary systems have been detected at High Energy (HE, E > 100 MeV) and/or Very High Energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma rays. Some of them are X-ray binaries in which accretion feeds relativistic radio jets and powers the non-thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Josep M. Paredes

Variable Source of High Energy Gamma-Ray Radiation Cygnus X-3

Long observation (1972 - 2009) of the powerful discrete source in Galaxy Cygnus X-3 discovered its main properties and let to develop a real model of this unique object. It is short binary system with 4.8 hour orbital period including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-05-07 A. M. Galper , B. I. Luchkov , Yu. T. Yurkin

The relativistic jet of Cygnus X-3 in gamma rays

High energy gamma-rays have been detected from Cygnus X-3, a system composed of a Wolf-Rayet star and a black hole or neutron star. The gamma-ray emission is linked to the radio emission from the jet launched in the system. The flux is…

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Discovery of extreme particle acceleration in the microquasar Cygnus X-3

The study of relativistic particle acceleration is a major topic of high-energy astrophysics. It is well known that massive black holes in active galaxies can release a substantial fraction of their accretion power into energetic particles,…

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Emission Mechanisms in High Energy Pulsars: From Gamma Rays to Infrared

We present a model for the gamma-ray emission of pulsars in terms of curvature radiation by highly relativistic particles. It is shown that the injection of power-law primary particles from an outer gap and subsequent cooling by curvature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. R. Crusius-Waetzel , H. Lesch

XMM-Newton view of pulsating iron fluorescent emission from Centaurus X3

Cen X-3 is a bright, high-mass X-ray binary pulsar. We present a pulse phase-resolved X-ray spectral analysis of data from an archival XMM-Newton observation of Cen X-3 taken during the high state of the source. The observation was entirely…

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The gamma-ray binaries LS 5039, LS I +61 303 and PSR B1259-63

Three binaries are now established sources of emission at very high energies (>1e11 eV). They are composed of a massive star and a compact object. The emission can be due to the interaction of the relativistic wind from a young ms pulsar…

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A search for very high-energy flares from the microquasars GRS 1915+105, Circinus X-1, and V4641 Sgr using contemporaneous H.E.S.S. and RXTE observations

Microquasars are potential $\gamma$-ray emitters. Indications of transient episodes of $\gamma$-ray emission were recently reported in at least two systems: Cyg X-1 and Cyg X-3. The identification of additional $\gamma$-ray-emitting…

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VHE Gamma-rays from Galactic X-ray Binary Systems

The detection of TeV gamma-rays from LS 5039 and the binary pulsar PSR B1259-63 by HESS, and from LS I +61 303 and the stellar-mass black hole Cygnus X-1 by MAGIC, provides a clear evidence of very efficient acceleration of particles to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 J. M. Paredes

Studying the X-ray absorption characteristics of Centaurus X-3 using nearly 14 years of MAXI/GSC data

Centaurus X-3 is a persistent high-mass X-ray binary with the long-term light curve from the source exhibiting orbit-to-orbit intensity variations with no apparent superorbital periodicity. We used $\sim$13.5 years of MAXI/GSC data to study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-24 Ajith Balu , Kinjal Roy , Hemanth Manikantan , Abhisek Tamang , Biswajit Paul

Modelling the expected very high energy gamma-ray emission from accreting neutron stars in X-ray binaries

The detection of gamma-ray emission from accreting pulsars in X-ray binaries (XRBs) has long been sought after. For some high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), marginal detections have recently been reported. Regardless of whether these will be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-14 L. Ducci , P. Romano , S. Vercellone , A. Santangelo