Swift follow-up of the newly discovered burster millisecond pulsar IGR J17511-3057

Authors
  • J. Chenevez
  • S. Brandt
  • V. Beckmann
  • A. Bird
  • A. Domingo
  • K. Ebisawa
  • P. Jonker
  • P. Kretschmar
  • C. Markwardt
  • T. Oosterbroek
  • A. Paizis
  • D. Risquez
  • C. Sanchez-Fernandez
  • S. Shaw
  • R. Wijnands
Publication date 2009
Journal The astronomer's telegram
Volume | Issue number 2198
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract Following the discovery of the new hard X-ray transient IGR J17511-3057 by INTEGRAL (Atel #2196) and its classification as a millisecond pulsar by RXTE (Atel #2197), a Swift ToO was performed. Swift/XRT observed IGR J17511-3057 on 2009-09-13 at 19:53:31 for a total exposure time of 4 ks. The first 2.5 ks were accumulated in window timing (WT) mode. A thermonuclear type-I X-ray burst was discovered in the WT light curve of the source at 2009-09-14 00:51:37 UTC with an exponential decay time of ~12.5 s.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=2198
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