Discovery of the shortest recurrence time between thermonuclear X- ray bursts

Bibcode
2009ATel.1979....1L
Linares, M.; Watts, A.; Altamirano, D.; Patruno, A.; Casella, P.; Rea, N.; Soleri, P.; van der Klis, M.; Wijnands, R.; Belloni, T.; Homan, J.; Mendez, M.
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The Astronomer's Telegram, #1979

Fecha de publicación:
3
2009
Número de autores
12
Número de autores del IAC
0
Número de citas
11
Número de citas referidas
11
Descripción
An RXTE observation of 4U 1636-536 taken on March 10th, 2009, revealed two type I X-ray bursts from this well studied neutron star low-mass X- ray binary (NS-LMXB). The recurrence time (wait time) between the two events, 5.4 minutes, is the shortest observed in any NS-LMXB. The average spectrum exhibited by both bursts was thermal. We performed time- resolved spectroscopy along the bursts, using a black body model and an absorbing column density of 0.3e22 cm-2 (Fiocchi et al.
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Sin árbitro
Estrellas de neutrones

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