Binary stars and the conundrum called Cygnus X-3

by Jocelyn Bell Burnell (The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)

Tuesday 24 Oct 2000, 16:30 → 16:45 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

Binary star systems come in many combinations of star mass and star separation. Energetic subsets are those systems that emit X-rays. This talk will review X-ray emitting binary stars, and show how one such system, Cygnus X-3, seems to upset much of what we understood. Many bizarre phenomena have been attributed to Cygnus X-3 (do you remember 'Cygnets'?), but how much of this is now established fact? How peculiar is this object?

Organiser(s): Jasper Kirkby / EP Division

Note: Tea & coffee will be served at 16.00 hrs