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astro-ph2001
Transient Phenomena and Outbursts from Galactic Black-Hole Candidates
Tomaso Belloni
The RossiXTE mission provided us with an unprecedentedly large database of X-ray observations of transient black-hole candidates. These systems are crucial for the understanding of…
astro-ph2001
Correlated msec X-ray and optical emission from XTE J1118+480
G. Kanbach, C. Straubmeier, H. C. Spruit +1
We report on fast (msec) simultaneous observations in X-rays and optical light of the black hole candidate XTE J1118+480, showing correlation on time scales from 20msec to several…
astro-ph2001
Discovery of a kHz QPO in 2S 0918-549
Peter G. Jonker, Michiel van der Klis, Jeroen Homan +6
We report the discovery of a kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillation (kHz QPO) in the low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) 2S 0918-549. The kHz QPO has a frequency of 1156+-9 Hz, a FWHM of 70…