The Return of the Bursts: Thermonuclear Flashes from Circinus X-1

The Return of the Bursts: Thermonuclear Flashes from Circinus X-1

We report the detection of 15 X-ray bursts with RXTE and Swift observations of the peculiar X-ray binary Circinus X-1 (Cir X-1) during its 2010 May X-ray re-brightening. These are the first X-ray bursts observed from the source after the initial discovery by Tennant and collaborators, 25 years ago....

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Main Authors: Linares, Manuel Alegret (Contributor), Homan, Jeroen (Contributor), Chakrabarty, Deepto (Contributor), Watts, A. (Author), Altamirano, D. (Author), Soleri, P. (Author), Degenaar, N. (Author), Yang, Y. (Author), Wijnands, R. (Author), Casella, P. (Author), Rea, N. (Author), Armas Padilla, M. (Author), Cavecchi, Y. (Author), Kalamkar, M. (Author), Kaur, R. (Author), Patruno, A. (Author), Klis, M. van der (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2013-01-09T21:05:21Z.
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