A NICER Thermonuclear Burst from the Millisecond X-Ray Pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658

A NICER Thermonuclear Burst from the Millisecond X-Ray Pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658

The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) has extensively monitored the 2019 August outburst of the 401 Hz millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658. In this Letter, we report on the detection of a bright helium-fueled Type I X-ray burst. With a bolometric peak flux of (2.3 0.1) 10-7 er...

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Main Authors: Bult, Peter (Author), Jaisawal, Gaurava K. (Author), Güver, Tolga (Author), Strohmayer, Tod E. (Author), Altamirano, Diego (Author), Arzoumanian, Zaven (Author), Ballantyne, David R. (Author), Chakrabarty, Deepto (Author), Chenevez, Jérôme (Author), Gendreau, Keith C. (Author), Guillot, Sebastien (Author), Ludlam, Renee M. (Author)
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society, 2020-10-28T21:04:34Z.
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