Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Jerome Chenevez: The INTEGRAL view of intermediate long X-ray bursts

Jerome shows that the INTEGRAL satellite is an important tool for the detection of intermediately long X-ray bursts. What I find quite impressive is that bursts from different sources can be detected within one detector lightcurve, thanks to the large field-of-view of the instrument. There are several sources for which different types of X-ray bursts are detected at roughly the same mass-accretion rate, so this must be near the transition rate of the different burst types.

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