Tags: Star.

Centaurus X-3 (4U 1118-60) is an X-ray pulsar with a period of 4.84 seconds. It was the first X-ray pulsar to be discovered and the third X-ray source to be discovered in the constellation Centaurus. The system consists of a neutron star orbiting a massive O-type supergiant star dubbed Krzeminski’s star after its discoverer. Matter is being accreted from the star onto the neutron star resulting in X-ray emission.

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Centaurus X-3"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.