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Cyg X-3

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Cyg X-3
(astrophysics)


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A detector deep in a mine in northern Minnesota has shown evidence for highly energetic particles coming straight to us from Cyg X-3 (SN: 4/11/87, p228).
Negative results from other detectors presented at this meeting seemed to lead many physicists to dismiss the idea, but Marvin Marshak of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, one of the leaders of the Soudan group, not only insisted on the accuracy of the Cyg X-3 observations but also presented a claim for similar radiation from four other objects of the same class as Cyg X-3.
Long known as a strong emitter of X-rays, Cyg X-3 also seems to be emitting an exotic form of radiation that is difficult to explain and may involve some hitherto unexpected and unknown physics.
 
 
 
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