A closer look at the soft X-ray transient X1608-52: Long-term optical and X-ray observations

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 568, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 901-911

  Wachter, Stefanie ^a   Hoard, D W ^a   Bailyn, Charles D ^b   Corbel, Stéphane ^c   Kaaret, Philip ^d  

^a CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Binaries: close; Stars: individual (QX Normae); Stars: neutron; Stars: variables: other; X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013405308     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339034     Document Type: Article

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