Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients - A short review

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Date Issued
2017
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DOI
Abstract
I present a brief up-to-date review of the current understanding of Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients, with an emphasis on the observational point of view. After more than a decade since their discovery, a remarkable progress has been made in getting the picture of their phenomenology at X-ray energies. However, a similar in-depth investigation of the properties of the supergiant companions is needed, but has started more recently. A multifrequency approach is the key to fully understand the physical mechanism driving the SFXT behaviour, still under debate.
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XII Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources Workshop (MULTIF2017)
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Giovannelli F.; Sabau-Graziati, L.
Volume
306
Start page
52
Conferenece
XII Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources Workshop
Conferenece place
Palermo
Conferenece date
12-17 giugno, 2017
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Url
Issn Identifier
1824-8039
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2017mbhe.confE..52S
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open.access
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