Pulsars, transients and relativistic astrophysics

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Searching for the signatures of jet-ISM interactions in X-ray binaries

(2008)

Authors:

James Miller-Jones, Christian Kaiser, Tom Maccarone, Rob Fender, Anna Kapińska, Katherine Gunn, David Russell, Catherine Brocksopp, Jennifer Sokoloski, Ben Stappers, Tom Muxlow
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Broadband X-ray Spectra of GX 339-4 and the Geometry of Accreting Black Holes in the Hard State

(2008)

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John A Tomsick, Emrah Kalemci, Philip Kaaret, Sera Markoff, Stephane Corbel, Simone Migliari, Rob Fender, Charles Bailyn, Michelle Buxton
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The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: atmospheric parameters and rotational velocity distributions for B-type stars in the Magellanic Clouds ***

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 479:2 (2008) 541-555

Authors:

I Hunter, DJ Lennon, PL Dufton, C Trundle, S Simón-Díaz, SJ Smartt, RSI Ryans, CJ Evans
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The needle in the haystack - Where to look for more isolated cooling neutron stars

(2008)

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B Posselt, SB Popov, F Haberl, J Truemper, R Turolla, R Neuhaeuser, PA Boldin
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The Compton-thick quasar at the heart of the high-redshift giant radio galaxy 6C 0905+39

ArXiv 0801.3341 (2008)

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MC Erlund, AC Fabian, Katherine M Blundell, Carolin S Crawford

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Our XMM-Newton spectrum of the giant, high-redshift (z=1.88) radio galaxy 6C 0905+39 shows that it contains one of the most powerful, high-redshift, Compton-thick quasars known. Its spectrum is very hard above 2 keV. The steep XMM spectrum below that energy is shown to be due to extended emission from the radio bridge using Chandra data. The nucleus of 6C 0905+39 has a column density of 3.5 (+1.4,-0.4) X 10^24 cm^-2 and absorption-corrected X-ray luminosity of 1.7 (+0.9,-0.1) X 10^45 erg/s in the 2-10 keV band. A lower redshift active galaxy in the same field, SDSS J090808.36+394313.6, may also be Compton-thick.
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