Coherent oscillations and the evolution of the emission area in the decaying phase of radius-expansion bursts from 4U 1636-53

Guobao Zhang, Mariano Mendez, Tomaso M. Belloni +1

We analysed all archival data of the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636--53 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (1490 observations). We found a total of 336 type-I X-ray bursts from th…