Model for X-ray Sources Based on Magnetic Field Twisting
Abstract
SEVERAL X-ray sources have been identified with binary stellar systems. It has been generally concluded that the presence of X-rays implies one of the stars must be a collapsed object (white dwarf, neutron star or black hole) which accretes matter from the other star, thus producing the X-rays. To a certain extent, this conclusion is based on the absence at present of any reasonable alternative model for the origin of X-rays. Because of the importance of establishing whether binary X-ray sources contain collapsed objects, we feel that it is worthwhile to attempt to construct alternative models and to derive their observational properties.
- Publication:
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Nature Physical Science
- Pub Date:
- May 1973
- DOI:
- 10.1038/physci243027a0
- Bibcode:
- 1973NPhS..243...27B