Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients: an INTEGRAL view

Blay, P.; Negueruela, I.; Reglero, V.
Bibliographical reference

Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, v.83, p.251 (2012)

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2012
Number of authors
3
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0
Citations
4
Refereed citations
3
Description
Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients have been recently unveiled as a new class of High Mass X-ray Binaries thanks to the excellent survey capabilities of the INTEGRAL/IBIS instrument. Although there is a general agreement on explaining the behavior of supergiant Fast X-ray Transients as the result of accretion by a compact object from the wind of a supergiant star, there are unsolved questions about the details on how the mass transfer takes place. We will review the peculiarities of these sources from the multiwavelength point of view.