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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Main Authors: Linares, Manuel Alegret (Contributor), Chakrabarty, Deepto (Contributor), Van Der Klis, M. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2012-04-13T15:19:23Z.
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