Observations of SS 433 (original) (raw)

NASA/ADS

Abstract

Contents: (1) Introduction: Basic data. (2) Optical and infrared observations: Doppler-shifted spectral lines. Deviations from the kinematic model. The stationary spectrum and "normal" star. Interstellar lines and extinction. Optical and infrared photometry. (3) Radio observations: The central source. The extended components. (4) X- and gamma-ray observations. (5) W50. (6) Some major uncertainties: Jet energetics, collimation, and acceleration. The disk and precession mechanism. The nature of the compact star. The extragalactic analogy. (7) Analogous galactic objects.

Publication:

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Pub Date:

1984

DOI:

10.1146/annurev.aa.22.090184.002451

Bibcode:

1984ARA&A..22..507M