abbreviation XRB can refer either to the object (X-ray burster) or to the associated emission (X-ray burst). When a star in a binary fills its Roche lobe...

"Deep Searches for Burster Counterparts". In Liang, Edison P.; Petrosian, Vahé (eds.). AIP Conference Proceedings. Gamma-Ray Bursts. Vol. 141. American...

X-ray binaries are a class of binary stars that are luminous in X-rays. The X-rays are produced by matter falling from one component, called the donor...

X-ray diffraction is a generic term for phenomena associated with changes in the direction of X-ray beams due to interactions with the electrons around...

X-ray astronomy is an observational branch of astronomy which deals with the study of X-ray observation and detection from astronomical objects. X-radiation...

luminous in X-rays X-ray burster, a class of X-ray binary stars exhibiting periodic and rapid increases in luminosity that peak in the X-ray regime of the...

The following is a list of significant gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) listed in chronological order. GRBs are named after the date on which they were detected:...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), previously known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), is a Flagship-class space telescope launched...

Sub-millisecond pulsar. X-ray burster: a neutron star with a low mass binary companion from which matter is accreted resulting in irregular bursts of energy from...

Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer, is a NASA three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and monitoring the afterglow in X-ray, and UV/Visible...

directed the burst observations and discovered several X-ray bursters, among them was the rapid burster which can produce thousands of X-ray bursts in one day...

X-rays (X-radiation) are a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation. In many languages, it is referred to as Röntgen radiation, after the German...

bursts reappear, though not yet with predictable regularity. The Bursting Pulsar is the only known X-ray pulsar that is also a Type II X-ray burster....

Terzan 5 also contains an X-ray burster, discovered in 1980, known as Terzan 5 or XB 1745-25. It also contains around 50 weaker X-ray sources, many of which...

Gamma-ray burst progenitors are the types of celestial objects that can emit gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). GRBs show an extraordinary degree of diversity....

superdense matter in the neutron stars. X-ray astronomy X-ray burster Tanaka, Y.; Shibazaki, N. (1996). "X-ray Novae". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics...

X-ray pulsars or accretion-powered pulsars are a class of astronomical objects that are X-ray sources displaying strict periodic variations in X-ray intensity...

event. In X-ray astronomy many sources have been discovered by placing an X-ray detector above the Earth's atmosphere. Often, the first X-ray source discovered...

the source region" of occasional X-ray bursts lasting only for about 1 ms. Cygnus X-1 belongs to a high-mass X-ray binary system, located about 2.22 kiloparsecs...

X-ray sources are astronomical objects with physical properties which result in the emission of X-rays. Several types of astrophysical objects emit X-rays...

satellite X-ray background X-ray binary X-ray burster X-ray computed tomography X-ray crystal truncation rod X-ray crystallography X-ray filter X-ray fluorescence...

The history of gamma-ray began with the serendipitous detection of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) on July 2, 1967, by the U.S. Vela satellites. After these satellites...

ignition of runaway hydrogen fusion can then lead to an X-ray burst. As with novae, such bursts tend to repeat and may also be triggered by helium or even...

An X-ray telescope (XRT) is a telescope that is designed to observe remote objects in the X-ray spectrum. X-rays are absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere...

instrument aboard Fermi, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM; formerly GLAST Burst Monitor), is being used to study gamma-ray bursts and solar flares. Fermi, named...

The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) was a NASA satellite that observed the time variation of astronomical X-ray sources, named after physicist Bruno...

Spectroscopic Eclipsing Close binaries Detached Semidetached Contact X-ray Burster Stellar groupings Star cluster Stellar association Open Globular Hypercompact...

shorter than those of X-rays. With frequencies above 30 exahertz (3×1019 Hz) and wavelengths less than 10 picometers (1×10−11 m), gamma ray photons have the...

Kilonova Micronova Superluminous supernova Supernova Supernova impostor X-ray burster "Nova Centauri 2013: Another bright, naked-eye nova | aavso.org". www...

discovered by NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory when it exhibited an X-ray burst on 12 March 2020. "SWIFT J1818.0-1607 -- Neutron Star". SIMBAD. Centre...