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Lord of the Rings: A Kinematic Distance to Circinus X-1 from a Giant X-Ray Light Echo
Sebastian Heinz, Michael G. Burton, Catherine Braiding +6
Circinus X-1 exhibited a bright X-ray flare in late 2013. Follow-up observations with Chandra and XMM-Newton from 40 to 80 days after the flare reveal a bright X-ray light echo in…
astro-ph.HE2015★ 48 cited
Calcium-Rich Gap Transients: Tidal Detonations of White Dwarfs?
P. H. Sell, T. J. Maccarone, R. Kotak +2
We hypothesize that at least some of the recently discovered class of calcium-rich gap transients are tidal detonation events of white dwarfs (WDs) by black holes (BHs) or possibly…