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Cygnus X-3, discovered 50 years ago (Giacconi et al. 1967), is one of the brightest X-ray sources in our Galaxy and the strongest radio source among the X-ray binaries, displaying two-sided transient powerful relativistic radio jets (Martí et al. 2001; Miller-Jones et al. 2004).

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Fernández Barral, A. (2018). Cygnus X-3. In: Extreme Particle Acceleration in Microquasar Jets and Pulsar Wind Nebulae with the MAGIC Telescopes. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97538-2_5

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