PROPERTIES OF THE 24 DAY MODULATION IN GX 13+1 FROM NEAR-INFRARED AND X-RAY OBSERVATIONS

A 24 day period for the low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) GX 13+1 was previously proposed on the basis of seven years of RXTE All-Sky Monitor (ASM) observations and it was suggested that this was the orbital period of the system. This would make it one of the longest known orbital periods for a Galactic...

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Main Authors: Corbet, Robin H. D. (Author), Pearlman, Aaron B. (Author), Buxton, Michelle (Author), Levine, Alan M. (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society, 2015-03-27T15:01:37Z.
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