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An X-ray burst from a magnetar enlightening the mechanism of fast radio bursts
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond radio pulses originating from powerful enigmatic sources at extragalactic distances. Neutron stars with large magnetic fields (magnetars) have been considered as the so...
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The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT)
High-time-resolution X-ray observations of compact objects provide direct access to strong-field gravity, to the equation of state of ultradense matter and to black hole masses and spins. A 10 m2-class instrument...
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Extreme particle acceleration in the microquasar Cygnus X-3
Galactic microquasars are binaries with a neutron star or stellar-mass black hole accreting gas from a companion star. They can accelerate particles to relativistic energies and emit radio flares, but the mech...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
GAMMA-RAY ASTROPHYSICS WITH AGILE
A brief description of the new generation high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics experiment AGILE and its main science objectives are presented.
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Status of the development of the imaging proportional counters for the Stellar X-Ray Polarimeter
The Stellar X-Ray Polarimeter SXRP will be flown at the focus of the SODART X-ray telescope aboard the Russian satellite SPECTRUM-X-Gamma by the end of 1995. Four imaging proportional counters will detect phot...