DISCOVERY OF THE THIRD TRANSIENT X-RAY BINARY IN THE GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTER TERZAN 5

DISCOVERY OF THE THIRD TRANSIENT X-RAY BINARY IN THE GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTER TERZAN 5

We report and study the outburst of a new transient X-ray binary (XRB) in Terzan 5, the third detected in this globular cluster, Swift J174805.3-244637 or Terzan 5 X-3. We find clear spectral hardening in Swift/XRT data during the outburst rise to the hard state, thanks to our early coverage (starti...

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Main Authors: Bahramian, Arash, Heinke, C. O., Sivakoff, Gregory R., Altamirano, Diego, Wijnands, Rudy, Homan, Jeroen, Linares, Manuel Alegret, Pooley, David, Degenaar, N., Gladstone, Jeanette C.
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95440

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