The 1996 Outburst of GRO J1655-40
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
During 1996 the soft-X-ray transient and superluminal jet source GRO J1655-40 was observed in outburst with a multiwavelength campaign including HST, RXTE, CGRO and ground based facilities. Here we focus on a key question raised by the observations: where and how does the outburst optical flux originate? Any model must not only fit the optical spectra, but must account for the observation that X-ray fluxes continued to rise slowly while the optical flux declined, contrary to predictions of standard models for the outburst of SXTs and dwarf novae.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9708158,
title = {The 1996 Outburst of GRO J1655-40},
author = {R. I. Hynes and C. A. Haswell and R. P. Fender and C. R. Shrader and W. Chen and K. Horne and E. T. Harlaftis and K. O'Brien and C. Hellier and J. Kemp},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9708158},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
2 pages, LaTeX, including 2 postscript figures. To appear in the proceedings of the 13th NAW on CVs, eds: S. Howell, E. Kuulkers and C. Woodward