x-ray star

Related to x-ray star: LMXB, X-ray burst

x-ray star

[′eks ‚rā ‚stär]

(astrophysics)

A source of x-rays from outside the solar system; examples are the point x-ray sources Scorpius X-1, Cygnus X-2, and the Crab x-ray source.

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Radio Star

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Dr Goodall added: "The performance of the mirrors is such that, within an area on the sky half a degree across, it would be able to see about 100,000 separate X-ray stars if such a large density of stars actually existed."

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Binaries with white-dwarf accretors, including novae and their cousins, are also among the fainter X-ray stars.