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Model for X-ray Sources Based on Magnetic Field Twisting

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SEVERAL X-ray sources have been identified with binary stellar systems. It has been generally concluded that the presence of X-rays implies one of the stars must be a collapsed object (white dwarf, neutron star or black hole) which accretes matter from the other star, thus producing the X-rays. To a certain extent, this conclusion is based on the absence at present of any reasonable alternative model for the origin of X-rays. Because of the importance of establishing whether binary X-ray sources contain collapsed objects, we feel that it is worthwhile to attempt to construct alternative models and to derive their observational properties.

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    JOHN N. BAHCALL & MARSHALL N. ROSENBLUTH

  2. Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540

    RUSSELL M. KULSRUD

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BAHCALL, J., ROSENBLUTH, M. & KULSRUD, R. Model for X-ray Sources Based on Magnetic Field Twisting. Nature Physical Science 243, 27–28 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci243027a0

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