Abstract
The new generation of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (HESS, MAGIC, VERITAS) has allowed us to conduct sensitive observations in the TeV regime. Several X‐ray binaries have been detected, among them PSR B1259–63, LS 5039, LS I +61 303 and, very recently, Cygnus X‐1. All of them contain high‐mass donors. While in the case of PSR B1259–63 the compact object is a confirmed young non‐accreting pulsar, and in the case of Cygnus X‐1 it is a dynamically confirmed stellar‐mass black hole and microquasar jet source, the situation is not yet clear in the cases of LS 5039 and LS I +61 303. I summarize here the current status of Very‐High‐Energy observations of X‐ray binaries and discuss possible scenarios that have been put forward to explain the TeV emission of these systems.
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