The Swift capture of a long X-ray burst from XTE J1701-407

The Swift capture of a long X-ray burst from XTE J1701-407

XTE J1701-407 is a new transient X-ray source discovered on 2008 June 8. More than onemonth later, it showed a rare type of thermonuclear explosion: a long type I X-ray burst. Wereport herein the results of our study of the spectral and flux evolution during this burst, as wellas the analysis of the...

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Main Authors: Linares, M., Watts, A., Wijnands, R., Soleri, P., Degenaar, N., Curran, Peter, Starling, R., van der Klis, M.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2009
Subjects:
stars: neutron
X-rays: bursts
X-rays: binaries
binaries: close
Online Access:http://mnrasl.oxfordjournals.org/content/392/1/L11.full.pdf+html
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31812

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http://mnrasl.oxfordjournals.org/content/392/1/L11.full.pdf+html
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31812

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