A bright thermonuclear X-ray burst simultaneously observed with Chandra and RXTE

A bright thermonuclear X-ray burst simultaneously observed with Chandra and RXTE

The prototypical accretion-powered millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4−3658 was observed simultaneously with Chandra-LETGS and RXTE-PCA near the peak of a transient outburst in November 2011. A single thermonuclear (type-I) burst was detected, the brightest yet observed by Chandra from any source, and th...

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Main Authors: in't Zand, J. J. M. (Author), Galloway, Duncan K. (Author), Ballantyne, D. R. (Author), Jonker, P. G. (Author), Paerels, F. B. S. (Author), Palmer, D. M. (Author), Patruno, A. (Author), Weinberg, Nevin N. (Contributor), Marshall, Herman (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), Marshall, Herman Lee (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences, 2014-08-07T15:46:17Z.
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