The accretion environment of supergiant fast X-ray transients probed withXMM-Newton

2017/09/03 by E. Bozzo, F. Bernardini, C. Ferrigno +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Accretion (finance) #Accretion disc #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Blue supergiant #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Intermediate polar #Spectral line #Stellar atmosphere #Stellar evolution #Supergiant #astro-ph.HE

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201730398

published as A&A 608, A128 (2017) · Accepted for publication on A&A

arxiv created 2017/09/03 · openalex created_date 2017/09/15 · openalex publication_date 2017/09/20 · arxiv updated 2017/12/20 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Context. Supergiant fast X-ray (SFXT) transients are a peculiar class of supergiant X-ray binaries characterized by a remarkable variability in the X-ray domain, widely ascribed to accretion from a clumpy stellar wind.

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