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Microquasars: hard X-ray/gamma-ray emission

Rob Fender

High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Eds. F.A. Aharonian, H.J. Volk, AIP conf. proc. 558, p. 221-233, 2001, 2001

Abstract

I review some of the basic observational details of jets from X-ray binaries, or `microquasars'. It is shown that in both (Z and Atoll) NS and BHC systems radio emission, and therefore jet formation, is correlated with the presence of hard (30-500 keV) X-ray emission. At gamma-ray (> 500 keV) energies, the relation is not so clear. Possible physical connections between the presence of a jet, with a population of relativistic electrons, and the emission of hard X-rays, are briefly discussed.

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