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An Optical Search for New Outbursting Low Mass X-Ray Binaries
Yuankun Wang, Eric C. Bellm, Allison Crossland +5
Transient Low-Mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) are discovered largely by X-ray and gamma-ray all-sky monitors. The X-ray outburst is also accompanied by an optical brightening, which em…
An Optically-Discovered Outburst from XTE J1859+226
Eric C. Bellm, Yuankun Wang, Jan van Roestel +13
Using the Zwicky Transient Facility, in 2021 February we identified the first known outburst of the Black Hole X-ray Transient XTE J1859+226 since its discovery in 1999. The outbur…
Discovery of Gaia17bpp, a Giant Star with the Deepest and Longest Known Dimming Event
Anastasios Tzanidakis, James R. A. Davenport, Eric C. Bellm +1
We report the serendipitous discovery of Gaia17bpp/2MASS J19372316+1759029, a star with a deep single large-amplitude dimming event of 4.5 magnitudes that lasted over 6.5 yea…