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Burbidge, Lynds and Stockton1 and Kristian, Sandage and Westphal2 have shown that the point X-ray source Cyg X-2 is very probably binary. Kraft and Demoulin3 further suggest that a third object may be present, for their radial velocity observations do not seem to repeat, but the observational uncertainties are such that this possibility will not be considered here.
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SOFIA, S., WILSON, R. Population Type of Cygnus X-2. Nature 218, 73–74 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218073b0
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