The 1996 outburst of GRO J1655-40: disc irradiation and enhanced mass transfer

A. A. Esin, J. -P. Lasota, R. I. Hynes

We show that the 1996 outburst of the X-ray binary transient system GRO J1655-40 can be explained by the standard dwarf-nova type disc instability, followed by an episode of enhanc…