The bizarre spectrum of SS 433
Abstract
SS 433 appears to be ejecting two very narrow jets of matter in opposite directions at extremely high velocities. No other star has ever been observed to behave in such a manner. This paper discusses the background of observations of SS 433 and relates how a comprehensive picture of the properties of this object came to be formed.
- Publication:
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Scientific American
- Pub Date:
- October 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1038/scientificamerican1080-54
- Bibcode:
- 1980SciAm.243d..54M
- Keywords:
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- Giant Stars;
- Plasma Jets;
- Stellar Mass Ejection;
- Stellar Spectra;
- Stellar Spectrophotometry;
- X Ray Sources;
- Emission Spectra;
- Heao 2;
- Line Spectra;
- Milky Way Galaxy;
- Red Shift;
- Stellar Luminosity;
- X Ray Telescopes;
- Astrophysics