Eddington-limited X-ray bursts as distance indicators. II. Possible compositional effects in bursts from 4U 1636-536

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 639, Issue 2 I, 2006, Pages 1033-1038

  Galloway, Duncan K ^a,b   Psaltis, Dimitrios ^a,c   Muno, Michael P ^a,d   Chakrabarty, Deepto ^a,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Stars: distances; Stars: individual (4U 1636 536); Stars: neutron; X rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645140363     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/499579     Document Type: Article

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