Towards a Population of HMXB/NS Microquasars as Counterparts of Low-Latitude Unidentified EGRET Sources.

M. RIBÓ, J.A. COMBI, I.F. MIRABEL

ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE

Springer Netherlands (Kluwer Academia Publ)

Lugar: Holanda; Año: 2005 vol. 297 p. 143 - 154

0004-640X

The discovery of the microquasar LS 5039 well within the 95% confidence contour of the Unidentified EGRET Source (UES) 3EG J1824‑1514 was a major step towards the possible association between microquasars (MQs) and UESs. The recent discovery of precessing relativistic radio jets in LS I +61 303, a source associated for long time with 2CG 135+01 and with the UES 3EG J0241+6103, has given further support to this idea. Finally, the very recently proposed association between the microquasar candidate AX J1639.0‑4642 and the UES 3EG J1639‑4702 points towards a population of High Mass X-ray Binary (HMXB)/Neutron Star (NS) microquasars as counterparts of low-latitude unidentified EGRET sources.