M33 X-7,

Francesca Valsecchi1, Evert Glebbeek, Will M Farr

  • 1Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA. francesca@u.northwestern.edu

Nature
|October 22, 2010
PubMed
まとめ

シミュレーションにより,巨大なX線バイナリ星M33 X-7が,X線バイナリ星M33 X-7であることを明らかにした.

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