The recurrence behaviour of X-ray bursts from 4U/MXB 1735-44

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Black Body Radiation, Eccentric Orbits, Gamma Ray Bursts, X Ray Astronomy, Exosat Satellite, Thermonuclear Explosions

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During about 80 h of uninterrupted observations of the X-ray burst source 4 U/MXB 1735-44, made in August 1985 with Exosat, five bursts were observed. The bursts occur at irregular intervals, ranging between 30 min and 36 h. The burst sizes do not scale with the intervals preceding the bursts; in particular the energy in a burst which occurred after an interval of 50 min was only 30 percent less than that of a burst which occurred after more than 20 h. Due to the long uninterrupted observations possible with Exosat, this is the first time for 1735-44 that the burst intervals and the burst characteristics (e.g., fluence) can be compared. The observations show that the model recently proposed by Fujimoto et al. (1987) to explain irregular burst intervals, is not applicable to 1735-44. The amplitude of periodic X-ray flux variations at the 4.65 h orbital period is less than 4 percent.

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