RAPID COOLING OF THE NEUTRON STAR IN THE QUIESCENT SUPER-EDDINGTON TRANSIENT XTE J1701-462

RAPID COOLING OF THE NEUTRON STAR IN THE QUIESCENT SUPER-EDDINGTON TRANSIENT XTE J1701-462

We present Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer and Swift observations made during the final three weeks of the 2006-2007 outburst of the super-Eddington neutron star (NS) transient XTE J1701-462, as well as Chandra and XMM-Newton observations covering the first sime800 days of the subsequent quiescent phase...

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Main Authors: Homan, Jeroen (Contributor), Wijnands, Rudy (Author), Mendez, Mariano (Author), Altamirano, Diego (Author), Cackett, E. M. (Author), Brown, Edward F. (Author), Belloni, Tomaso M. (Author), Degenaar, N. (Author), Lewin, Walter H. G. (Contributor), Fridriksson, Joel Karl (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), Fridriksson, Joel K. (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society, 2015-03-04T15:55:17Z.
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