New Optical Observations of XTE J1118+480

Zurita, C.; Muñoz-Darias, T.; Martínez-País, I. G.; Casares, J.; Rodríguez-Gil, P.; Shahbaz, T.; Torres, M. A. P.; Zhao, P.; Steeghs, D.; Garcia, M. R.
Bibliographical reference

The Astronomer's Telegram, #424

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2005
Number of authors
10
IAC number of authors
0
Citations
7
Refereed citations
6
Description
We report on new R-band photometry of the outbursting black hole candidate XTE J1118+480 (ATEL #383, #384) obtained with the 4.2m WHT at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (La Palma) and with the FLWO 1.2m telescope on Mt. Hopkins. We measure the following average magnitudes: Feb 20.19 (UT), R=16.94 +/- 0.06; Feb 21.18, R=17.41 +/- 0.06; Feb 21.49, R=17.58 +/-0.07; Feb 22.26, R=18.08 +/- 0.06.