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Discovery of a High-Energy Gamma-Ray-Emitting Persistent Microquasar

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Microquasars are stellar x-ray binaries that behave as a scaled down version of extragalactic quasars. The star LS 5039 is a new microquasar system with apparent persistent ejection of relativistic plasma at a 3 kiloparsec distance from the sun. It may also be associated with a gamma-ray source discovered by the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on board the COMPTON-Gamma Ray Observatory satellite. Before the discovery of LS 5039, merely a handful of microquasars had been identified in the Galaxy, and none of them was detected in high-energy gamma-rays.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

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(c) Paredes i Poy, Josep Maria et al., 2000

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Articles publicats en revistes (Física Quàntica i Astrofísica)

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Discovery of a High-Energy Gamma-Ray-Emitting Persistent Microquasar