Identification of the optical and quiescent counterparts to the bright X-ray transient in NGC 6440

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 563, Issue 1 PART 2, 2001, Pages

  In 'T Zand, J J M ^a,b   Van Kerkwijk, M H ^a   Pooley, D ^c   Verbunt, F ^a   Wijnands, R ^c   Lewin, W H G ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Globular clusters: individual (NGC 6440); Stars: neutron; X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010521091     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/338361     Document Type: Article

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