ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] GX1 +4 (4U1728 -24) is a luminous binary X-ray pulsar near the Galactic centre13, with a ~2 min (or possibly twice this) pulse period and probably a 〉 100-day binary period7'13. From its discovery in the early 1970s until 1980, it was spinning up rapidly, with P = -7.5 x 10~8 s s-1 (P/P = -0.02 ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/333746a0
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