The Giant Flares of the Microquasar Cygnus X-3: X-Rays States and Jets

We report on two giant radio flares of the X-ray binary microquasar Cyg X-3, consisting of a Wolf–Rayet star and probably a black hole. The first flare occurred on 13 September 2016, 2000 days after a previous giant flare in February 2011, as the RATAN-600 radio telescope daily monitoring showed. Af...

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Main Authors: Sergei Trushkin, Michael McCollough, Nikolaj Nizhelskij, Peter Tsybulev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-11-01
Series:Galaxies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/5/4/86