Accretion-powered Compact Binaries
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 4, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780521545754
Subjects: Astrophysics; Stars, interstellar matter; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astrophysics & Space Science; Science / Astrophysics & Space Science
First sentence: One of the great difficulties in studying X-ray sources in the Galaxy is that often their distances and reddening are very poorly determined, and therefore their true luminosities and other parameters are also not known.