The transient IGR J17361-4441 in the globular cluster NGC 6388 an unusual very-faint transient X-ray binary or an outburst from an intermediate-mass black hole
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| Publication date | 26-08-2011 |
| Journal | The astronomer's telegram |
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| Abstract | Gibaud et al. (2011, ATel #3565) reported the INTEGRAL discovery of a new transient, IGR J17361-4441, located in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6388 (Ferrigno et al. 2011, ATel #3566). Swift/XRT has monitored this source from 16 to 25 August on a nearly daily basis (see ATel #3566 for the first observation). The 0.5-10 keV unabsorbed flux in those observations was roughly constant, typically (4-6)e-11 erg/s/cm^2, corresponding to a 0.5-10 keV X-ray luminosity of (6-9)e35 erg/s (for a distance of 11.5 kpc), making this source a very-faint X-ray transient (VFXT; see Wijnands et al. |
| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=3595 |
| Other links | https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ATel.3595....1W/abstract |
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The transient IGR J17361-4441 in the globular cluster NGC 6388
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