Long tails on thermonuclear X-ray bursts from neutron stars: a signature of inward heating?

J. J. M. in 't Zand, L. Keek, A. Cumming +3

We report the discovery of one-hour long tails on the few-minutes long X-ray bursts from the `clocked burster' GS 1826-24. We propose that the tails are due to enduring thermal rad…