More than 300 experts in high-energy astrophysics from all around the globe have participated to the meeting “X-ray Universe 2017”, which finishes today. The “X-ray Universe”, organized by ESA with the participation of several institutions such as INAF, is one of the most important periodic meeting about high-energy astrophysics, mainly focused on X-ray astronomy. This year it has been
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Observing how the light emitted by stars changes with the time can be an interesting hobby, but it can also be something more important: an important and powerful diagnostic for something that can be hardly studied with some other approach… This can be particularly important for pre-main sequence stars with protoplanetary disks. In these stars, in fact, important and
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Pur essendo sempre spettacolare ed affascinante, l’Universo appare diverso quando lo si osserva in diverse bande dello spettro elettromagnetico. In particolare, quello osservabile ai raggi X è un Universo dominato da fenomeni violenti e particolarmente energetici: esplosioni e resti di supernovae; corone stellari con plasma a milioni di gradi e dominate da brillamenti ed espulsioni di massa; gli esotici oggetti compatti in
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L’astronoma Beate Stelzer dell’Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo è autrice dell’articolo “X-ray orbital modulation of a white dwarf accreting from an L dwarf” pubblicato su Astronomy & Astrophysics. Nell’articolo sono analizzati i dati ai raggi X ottenuti da osservazioni con il satellite XMM/Newton del sistema binario SDSS J121209.31+013627.7, composto da una nana bianca ed una nana bruna. Nello studio è riportata la
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