Reexamination of the SAS 2 Cygnus X-3 data

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view Abstract Citations (12) References (39) Co-Reads Similar Papers Volume Content Graphics Metrics Export Citation NASA/ADS Reexamination of the SAS 2 Cygnus X-3 Data Fichtel, C. E. ; Thompson, D. J. ; Lamb, R. C. Abstract Recent observations of Cygnus X-3 have shown marked variability of the radiation on short time scales. In particular, the bursts lasting on the order of 10 minutes, seen in both the infrared and very high energy (greater than 10 to the 11th eV) gamma-ray regions, and the time-variations on many scales at high energies, have stimulated a reanalysis of the March 6 to 13, 1973 SAS 2 high-energy gamma-ray data. Although a clear periodicity in the E greater 35 MeV gamma radiation is observed at the 4.79 hr period seen in X-rays, there is no evidence for major variations of the radiation from one day to the next, and no statistically significant evidence for bursts on the 10-minute time scale seen in the infrared or very high energy ranges. If the excess observed had been predominantly in the form of ten minute bursts even at a rate as high as two/day, a clearly significant set of bursts would have been seen. Publication: The Astrophysical Journal Pub Date: August 1987 DOI: 10.1086/165460 Bibcode: 1987ApJ...319..362F Keywords: Spectrum Analysis; Stellar Spectra; X Ray Binaries; Gamma Ray Spectra; Infrared Spectra; Periodic Variations; Stellar Radiation; Astrophysics; STARS: INDIVIDUAL CONSTELLATION NAME: CYGNUS X-3; X-RAYS: BINARIES full text sources ADS | data products SIMBAD (1)