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Krzeminsky’s Optical Candidate for Cen X-3
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2016
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Cen X-3 and Her X-1 are the only two X-ray binaries which are known to pulsate periodically (at 4.8s and 1.2s respectively) in the X-ray region. The latter was identified with a fourteenth magnitude light and spectrum variable HZ Her, which was subsequently found to exhibit 1.24 second optical pulsations during certain phases. The possibility that Cen X-3 may prove to be as interesting an object optically has resulted in a wide spread search for its optical counterpart.
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- X-Ray Astronomy
- Information
- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 2 , Issue 5 , September 1974 , pp. 289 - 290
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1974