Producing cosmic rays, which also happens following a supernova, requires that particles be accelerated nearly to the speed of light. “We found that the accelerated particles are really energetic, which is much more than we expected from this star,” says Kenji Hamaguchi, the lead author on the study.
UMBC astronomer Kenji Hamaguchi confirms binary star system produces cosmic rays
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July 16, 2018 at 4:16 PM
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