Log-Normal Distributions in Cygnus X-1: Possible Physical Link with Gamma-Ray Bursts and Blazars
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Log-Normal Distributions in Cygnus X-1: Possible Physical Link with Gamma-Ray Bursts and Blazars
Prompted by recent discoveries of log-normal distributions in gamma-ray/X-ray temporal variabilities of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and blazars, we re-examine the X-ray variability of Cygnus X-1 in the hard/low state using Ginga data in 1990. It was previously reported that the distributions of the time intervals between X-ray shots (flares) deviated from the Poisson distributions at short time int...
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عنوان ژورنال: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0004-6264,2053-051X
DOI: 10.1093/pasj/54.5.l69