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Jet models for the high-energy emission of Galactic X-ray binary sources have regained significant interest with detailed spectral and timing studies of the X-ray emission from microquasars, the recent detection by the HESS collaboration of very-high-energy γ-rays from the microquasar LS 5039, and the earlier suggestion of jet models for ultraluminous X-ray sources observed in many nearby galaxies. Here we study the synchrotron and Compton signatures of time-dependent electron injection and acceleration, and adiabatic and radiative cooling in the jets of Galactic microquasars.
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Gupta, S., Böttcher, M. Time-Dependent Synchrotron and Compton Spectra from Microquasar Jets. Astrophys Space Sci 307, 237–240 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-006-9241-6
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