Revealing Gamma-Ray Binaries
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2015-06-03 v1
Abstract
Recent ground based and space telescopes that detect high energy photons from a few up to hundreds of gigaelectron volts (GeV) have opened a new window on the universe. However, because of the relatively poor angular resolution of these telescopes, a large fraction of the thousands of sources of gamma-rays observed remains unknown. Compact astrophysical objects are among those high energy sources, and in the Milky Way there is a particular class called "Gamma-Ray Binaries".
Cite
@article{arxiv.1201.3317,
title = {Revealing Gamma-Ray Binaries},
author = {I. F. Mirabel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.3317},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Perspective article in SCIENCE. 3 pages, 1 color figure