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Stellar Accretion and X-ray Emission

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Shklovsky has suggested that the Scorpius X-ray source is a binary pair and that the X-radiation arises from the collision of material from a giant star with a neutron star. The theoretical complications of such a model are now found not to match actual measurements and it is suggested that the bremsstrahlung effect occurs between a giant star and a white dwarf.

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  1. Belfer Graduate School of Science, Yeshiva University, New York

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  2. Institute for Space Studies, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, New York

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  3. Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York

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CAMERON, A., MOCK, M. Stellar Accretion and X-ray Emission. Nature 215, 464–466 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215464a0

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