The Milky Way in X-rays for an outside observer - Log(N)-Log(S) and luminosity function of X-ray binaries from RXTE/ASM data

H.-J. Grimm; M. Gilfanov; R. Sunyaev

doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20020826

Free Access

Issue		A&A Volume 391, Number 3, September I 2002


Page(s)		923 - 944
Section		Extragalactic astronomy
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20020826
Published online		09 August 2002

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