Astronomer detects a new source of intense gamma radiation

Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 06:00 in Astronomy & Space

Analyzing the data collected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Maxim Pshirkov of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute discovered a new source confirming that binary systems with strong colliding stellar winds comprise a new population of high-energy gamma-ray sources.His article was published in the latest issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters.

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