2017/10/02 by B. Marcote, Marcote, B.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1710.00815
openalex publication_date 2017/10/02 · openalex created_date 2020/11/09 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Gamma-ray binaries are systems composed of a massive star and a compact\nobject that produce emission from radio to very high energy gamma-rays. LS I\n+61 303 is one of the only six gamma-ray binaries discovered so far. It is\nthought that gamma-ray binaries contain a young highly rotating neutron star as\ncompact object, and the emission is produced by the interaction between its\nrelativistic pulsar wind and the stellar wind, However, in the case of LS I +61\n303 a microquasar scenario is still considered and results pointing to oppose\ndirections have been published during the last decades. Here we provide a\nreview about the state of the art of LS I +61 303, summarizing the observed\nemission from radio to very high energy gamma-rays along all these years, and\nwe discuss the proposed scenarios that can explain such emission.\n