Detection of pulsations and identification of SAX J1748.9-2021 as the X-ray transient in NGC 6440.

Patruno, A.; Altamirano, D.; Watts, A.; Armas Padilla, M.; Cavecchi, Y.; Degenaar, N.; Kalamkar, M.; Kaur, R.; Soleri, P.; Yang, Y. J.; van der Klis, M.; Wijnands, R.; Casella, P.; Linares, M.; Rea, N.; Heinke, C. O.; Pooley, D.
Bibliographical reference

The Astronomer's Telegram, #2407

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2010
Number of authors
17
IAC number of authors
0
Citations
27
Refereed citations
25
Description
On the 28th of December, MAXI/GSC detected an X-ray outburst from the globular cluster NGC6440 (Atel #2360), which has continued to the present.