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., Galloway, Duncan K., Ballantyne, D. R., Jonker, P. G., Paerels, F. B. S., Palmer, D. M., Patruno, A., Weinberg, Nevin N., Marshall, Herman
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: EDP Sciences 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88581
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9194-2084

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88581
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9194-2084

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