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When A Standard Candle Flickers
Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, Michael L. Cherry, Wayne H. Baumgartner +27
The Crab Nebula is the only hard X-ray source in the sky that is both bright enough and steady enough to be easily used as a standard candle. As a result, it has been used as a nor…
astro-ph.HE2010★ 16 cited
Puzzling thermonuclear burst behaviour from the transient low-mass X-ray binary IGR J17473-2721
J. Chenevez, D. Altamirano, D. K. Galloway +8
We investigate the thermonuclear bursting behaviour of IGR J17473-2721, an X-ray transient that in 2008 underwent a six month long outburst, starting (unusually) with an X-ray burs…