Optical Monitoring of the X-ray Transient X1608-52

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Feb 2002

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NOAO Proposal ID #2002A-0013

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Soft X-ray transients (SXTs) are interacting binaries where matter donated by a late-type star is accreted onto a neutron star or black hole. SXTs sporadically undergo drastic outbursts characterized by an increase of several orders of magnitude in the X-ray and optical luminosities. This provides the opportunity to study the physical parameters of the accretion flow for a large range in mass transfer rates. The X-ray emission is thought to reflect the accretion rate through the inner edge of the accretion disk while the optical lightcurve traces the physical conditions at the outer disk. We propose to continue our monitoring of the currently quiescent counterpart of the neutron star SXT X1608-52 in order to study the onset and development of its next outburst in coordination with various X-ray satellite observations.

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