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Discovery of a bow shock around Vela X-1

Lex Kaper, Jacco van Loon, Thomas Augusteijn +4

We report the discovery of a symmetric bow shock around the well-known high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) Vela X-1. Wind bow shocks are a ubiquitous phenomenon around OB-runaway stars,…