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One of the major surprises of X-ray astronomy was the discovery of galactic binaries as highly luminous sources emitting as much as 1038 erg S−1 via thermal emission caused by accretion onto the compact companion. That similar amounts of energy might be emitted by non-thermal processes in the form of particles with energy as great as 1015 eV (1 PeV) is even more surprising and is one of the most striking results to come from the new discipline of Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy.
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Weekes, T.C. (1993). TeV Radiation From Binary Stars. In: Sahade, J., McCluskey, G.E., Kondo, Y. (eds) The Realm of Interacting Binary Stars. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 177. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2416-4_15
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