X-ray bursts at extreme mass accretion rates from GX 17+2

E. Kuulkers, J. Homan, M. van der Klis +2

(abridged version) We report on ten type I X-ray bursts from GX 17+2 in data obtained with the RXTE/PCA in 1996--2000. Three bursts were short in duration (~10 s), whereas the othe…