Browsing by Subject "X-rays - stars"

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    • An X-ray outburst from the rapidly accreting young star that illuminates McNeil's Nebula 

      Kastner, Joel; Richmond, Michael; Grosso, Nicolas; Weintraub, David; Simon, Theodore; Frank, Adam; Hamaguchi, Kenji; Ozawa, Hideki; Henden, Arne (Nature, 2004-07-22)
      Young, low-mass stars are luminous X-ray sources1 whose powerful X-ray flares^(2-6) may exert a profound influence over the process of planet formation^(7). The origin of such emission is uncertain. Although many or ...