Soft X-ray transient light curves as standard candles: Exponential versus linear decays

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 301, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 382-388

  Shahbaz, T ^a   Charles, P A ^a   King, A R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion discs; Instabilities; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; DECAY (ORGANIC); IRRADIATION;

ACCRETION DISCS; ACCRETION: ACCRETION DISKS; DWARF NOVAE; EXPONENTIALS; LIGHT CURVES; QUIESCENT STATE; SOFT X-RAY; X-RAY LUMINOSITY; X-RAY TRANSIENTS; X-RAY:STARS;

LUMINANCE;

EID: 0000666076     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01991.x     Document Type: Article

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