Publication Date:
2006-04-18
Description:
The steep high energy cutoff observed in the spectrum for Her X-1 is analyzed in terms of the severely modified Thomson scattering that dominates the radiative transfer in a highly magnetized plasma near the surface of a neutron star. The data are shown to indicate a field of about 10 to the 13th power G near the magnetic poles and the stopping of accreting matter by nuclear collisions in the neighboring plasma.
Keywords:
ASTROPHYSICS
Type:
X-ray Binaries; p 113-118
Format:
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