Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003head....7.4101s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #7, #41.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 35, p.654
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
In the last few years a new regime of thermonuclear burning on neutron stars has been discovered. This new regime manifests itself through the production of hours long flares with a recurrence time on the order of years. These flares are now commonly referred to as "superbursts." Their discovery was made possible by sensitive, long term monitoring of the X-ray sky with the BeppoSAX Wide Field Cameras (WFC) and the RXTE All Sky Monitor (ASM). I will briefly review the current observational and theoretical understanding of these events, and what they are teaching us about neutron stars and thermonuclear burning on them. I will also discuss recent high time resolution studies of a superburst from 4U 1636-53 with RXTE which showed coherent oscillations at the well known 582 Hz burst oscillation frequency in this source.
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