X-Ray Pulsar (IMAGE)

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

X-Ray Pulsar

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'Tomographic' X-ray imaging of the X-ray pulsar GROJ2058+42. An artist'sic impression of the accreting X-ray pulsar shows one of the neutron star poles generating an X-ray emission (Credit: NASA/CXC/S. Lee). Arrows demonstrate different directions of the emitted radiation and the corresponding observed spectra

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<i>Astrophysical Journal Letters</i>

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