Microquasars and gamma-ray sources
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Microquasars are X-ray binary systems with non-thermal radio emission originated in jet-like features. They are attractive sites for gamma-ray production, since relativistic particles in the jet should traverse locally strong both photon and matter fields. In this review we discuss whether some of the unidentified gammaray sources detected by the EGRET instrument of the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory might be associated with microquasars. Relevant models for gammaray emission in such binaries are described and prospects for the detection of microquasars with instruments of new generation are briefly evaluated.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004