Discovery of two transient X-ray sources in the Vela-Puppis region - Pulsar GS 0834-430 and burster GS 0836-429

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Accretion Disks, Power Spectra, Pulsars, X Ray Sources, Proportional Counters, Transient Response

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We detected an X-ray outburst in the Vela-Puppis region with the All Sky Monitor (ASM) aboard Ginga on November 22, 1990. Following observations by the Large Area proportional Counter (LAC) revealed that this outburst consisted of two transient sources, GS 0834-430 and GS 0836-429, accidentally in the same field of view of the LAC by a separation of only 0.4 degree. These two transient X-ray sources were subsequently monitored with the LAC until 1991 May. GS 0834-430 was identified by an X-ray pulsar with a period of 12.3 s. This pulsar shows a power-law energy spectrum with a photon index of about 0.9, and with a high-energy cutoff that is typical of X-ray pulsars. GS 0836-429 was identified by an X-ray burster, which shows typical type-I bursts approximately every 2 h.

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