Bibcode
Blay, P.; Negueruela, I.; Reglero, V.
Bibliographical reference
Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, v.83, p.251 (2012)
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2012
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.