Very Energetic Gamma-Rays from Microquasars and Binary Pulsars

Abstract

Compact astrophysical objects produce some of the highest energy light in the universe. The challenge is to determine what mechanism produces these photons.

Perspective article to be published in Science vol. 312 (June 23, 2006)

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