Bright X-ray bursts from 1E 1724-3045 in Terzan 2
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
During about 3 years wide field monitoring of the Galactic Center region by the WFC telescopes on board the BeppoSAX satellite, a total of 14 type-I X-ray bursts were detected from the burster 1E 1724-3045 located in the globular cluster Terzan 2. All the observed events showed evidence for photospheric radius expansion due to Eddington-limit burst luminosity, thus leading to an estimate of the source distance (~7.2 kpc). Preliminary results of the analysis of the bursts are presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0003333,
title = {Bright X-ray bursts from 1E 1724-3045 in Terzan 2},
author = {M. Cocchi and A. Bazzano and L. Natalucci and P. Ubertini and J. Heise and E. Kuulkers and J. J. M. in 't Zand},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0003333},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures, Proc. 5th Compton Symp., Portsmouth 1999