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Particle injection played an important role in the recent Cygnus X-3 radio outburst. Calculations on the basis of an improved expanding cloud model show that a maximum mass of 0.76 × 10−8 M⊙ was injected over a period of 1.2 days.
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PETERSON, F. Particle Injection in the Cygnus X-3 Radio Outburst. Nature 242, 173–177 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242173a0
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