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, Wijnands, Rudy, Mendez, Mariano, Altamirano, Diego, Cackett, E. M., Brown, Edward F., Belloni, Tomaso M., Degenaar, N., Lewin, Walter H. G., Fridriksson, Joel Karl
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95791