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| Name: | Josep M. Paredes |
| Institution: | Universitat de Barcelona |
| Country: | Spain |
| Title: | BeXRBs as high-energy gamma-ray sources |
| Abstract: | Gamma-ray emission from five X-ray binaries (XRB) has been detected at very-high energies (VHE) by Cherenkov telescopes and/or at high-energy (HE) by space-borne instruments. In some of them accretion feeds relativistic radio jets and powers the non-thermal emission (i.e., microquasars), whereas in others the power comes from the wind of a young non-accreting pulsar. Significantly, among this small group of stellar gamma-ray sources there are two Be X-ray binary systems. In one of them, PSR B1259-63, the compact object is a pulsar whereas in the other, LSI+61303, the nature of the compact object is unknown. In addition, two new BeXRBs have been proposed to be the counterparts of HE/VHE sources. I will summarise here some of the main observational results on the non-thermal emission from these HE/VHE BeXRBs and of the new potential candidates as well as some of the proposed scenarios to explain the production of HE/VHE gamma-rays |
Jul 20, 2011
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