On the Cooling Tails of Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts: The IGR J17480–2446 Link

The neutron star transient and 11 Hz X-ray pulsar IGR J17480–2446, recently discovered in the globular cluster Terzan 5, showed unprecedented bursting activity during its 2010 October-November outburst. We analyzed all X-ray bursts detected with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer and find strong eviden...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Linares, Manuel Alegret, Chakrabarty, Deepto, Van Der Klis, M.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70013
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8804-8946