Is Cygnus X-3 strange?

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(85)91489-3

Physics Letters B

Volume 160, Issues 1–3, 3 October 1985, Pages 181-187

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Abstract

We discuss the recently reported measurements of the properties of high energy cosmic rays arriving from the direction of the compact binary X-ray source Cygnus X-3. We argue that the source of these events may be a strange quark star, and that the primary which directly produces them is a low baryon number neutral hadron with multiple strangeness which is stable up to (at least) simultaneous double strangeness changing weak decays.

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¹: Research supported through NSF Grant PHY 84-15064.

²: Permanent address: Physics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.

⁴: We thank C. Alcock, J.D. Bjorken, S. Errede, T. Gaisser, M. Gell-Mann, F. Halzen, S. Kahana, K. Ruddick, T. Stanev, M. Turner and G. Yodh for comments and suggestions.

³: This work is supported in part through funds provided by the US Department of Energy (DOE) under contract #DE-AC02-76ER03069.

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Is Cygnus X-3 strange?

Abstract

Phys. Lett.

Nucl. Phys.

Phys. Lett.

Nucl. Phys.

Phys. Rev.

Phys. Rev. Lett.

Astrophys. J.

University of Wisconsin preprint MAD/PH/243

University of California at Irvine preprint 85-14

Fermilab preprint

Bartol preprint BA-85-12

Astrophys. J.

Astrophys. J.

Astrophys. J.

Astrophys. J.

Boston University preprint

CERN preprint

Institute de Fisica Generale dell'Universita di Torino, preprint

Phys. Rev. Lett.