Photodissociation regions in the interstellar medium of galaxies

DJ Hollenbach, A Tielens - Reviews of Modern Physics, 1999 - APS
The interstellar medium of galaxies is the reservoir out of which stars are born and into
which stars inject newly created elements as they age. The physical properties of the …

Sources of relativistic jets in the galaxy

IF Mirabel, LF Rodriguez - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 1999 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Black holes of stellar mass and neutron stars in binary systems are first detected
as hard X-ray sources using high-energy space telescopes. Relativistic jets in some of these …

BlackCAT: A catalogue of stellar-mass black holes in X-ray transients

JM Corral-Santana, J Casares, T Munoz-Darias… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
Aims. During the last~ 50 years, the population of black hole candidates in X-ray binaries
has increased considerably, with 59 Galactic objects being detected in transient low-mass X …

WATCHDOG: a comprehensive all-sky database of galactic black hole X-ray binaries

BE Tetarenko, GR Sivakoff, CO Heinke… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
With the advent of more sensitive all-sky instruments, the transient universe is being probed
in greater depth than ever before. Taking advantage of available resources, we have …

A universal radio–X-ray correlation in low/hard state black hole binaries

E Gallo, RP Fender, GG Pooley - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Several independent lines of evidence now point to a connection between the physical
processes that govern radio (ie jet) and X-ray emission from accreting X-ray binaries. We …

A catalogue of low-mass X-ray binaries in the Galaxy, LMC, and SMC

QZ Liu, J Van Paradijs… - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2007 - aanda.org
We present a new edition of the catalogue of the low-mass X-ray binaries in the Galaxy and
the Magellanic Clouds. The catalogue contains source name (s), coordinates, finding chart …

The properties of X-ray and optical light curves of X-ray novae

W Chen, CR Shrader, M Livio - The Astrophysical Journal, 1997 - iopscience.iop.org
We have collected the available data from the literature and from public data archives
covering the past two decades for the long-term X-ray and optical light curves of X-ray nova …

The 511 keV emission from positron annihilation in the Galaxy

N Prantzos, C Boehm, AM Bykov, R Diehl… - Reviews of Modern …, 2011 - APS
The first γ-ray line originating from outside the Solar System that was ever detected is the
511 keV emission from positron annihilation in the Galaxy. Despite 30 years of intense …

Gamma-ray spectroscopy of positron annihilation in the Milky Way

T Siegert, R Diehl, G Khachatryan, MGH Krause… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
Context. The annihilation of positrons in the Galaxy's interstellar medium produces
characteristic gamma-rays with a line at 511 keV. This gamma-ray emission has been …

An organic solid with wide channels based on hydrogen bonding between macrocycles

D Venkataraman, S Lee, J Zhang, JS Moore - Nature, 1994 - nature.com
RESEARCH on microporous solids has focused largely on inorganic materials such as
aluminosilicates (zeolites), aluminophosphates, pillared clays and other layered materials1 …