Absorption of gamma rays by X-ray photons around Cygnus X-3 1
Abstract
We calculated the absorption of gamma rays of Cygnus X — 3 by the ambient X — ray photons through photon-photon pair production and inverse Compton scattering. Differences in the gamma ray spectrum between the X — ray high state and low state indicate the presence of this absorption.
- Publication:
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Acta Astrophysica Sinica
- Pub Date:
- December 1990
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0275-1062(90)90030-H
- Bibcode:
- 1990AcApS..10..291L
- Keywords:
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- Gamma Ray Astronomy;
- Photons;
- Radiation Absorption;
- X Ray Binaries;
- Astronomical Models;
- Compton Effect;
- Cos-B Satellite;
- Cygnus Constellation;
- Gamma Ray Spectra;
- Pair Production;
- Stellar Spectra;
- Astrophysics;
- Gamma ray sources;
- X-ray binaries;
- radiation mechanisms