x-ray star

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

[′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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But a whole new set of X-ray stars burned with unexpected power.

But a few pulsing X-ray stars remained mysterious, seemingly powered by neither rotation nor gravitational accretion.

Van Paradijs was fascinated by this new class of X-ray stars, and he also liked the magnetar proposal.

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

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