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Artist's impression of a neutron star partially devouring a massive clump of matter

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Title Artist's impression of a neutron star partially devouring a massive clump of matter

Released 29/06/2011 9:44 am

Copyright ESA/AOES Medialab

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This animated sequence of images illustrates the partial ingestion of a clump of matter by the neutron star hosted in the Supergiant Fast X-Ray Transient, IGR J18410-0535.
The ingestion of the clump material produced a dramatic increase in the X-rays released by the neutron star, which was detected with XMM-Newton. The peak in the X-ray luminosity corresponds to the period when the accretion rate was at its maximum.

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Activity Space Science

Mission XMM-Newton

Keywords Astronomy targets , Neutron stars

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