Helium cyclotron emission from accreting magnetized neutron stars.

Chitre, S. M.; Apparao, K. M. V.

India

Abstract

The authors find that helium nuclei accreting onto magnetized neutron stars in strong X-ray sources can emit cyclotron radiation. In the case of the X-ray source 4U 0115+63, the He cyclotron line at 6 eV in the ultraviolet should be observable with the IUE satellite.

1983 Astronomy and Astrophysics
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