Hard X-ray bursts recorded by the IBIS telescope of the INTEGRAL observatory in 2003-2009
Abstract
To find X-ray bursts from sources within the field of view of the IBIS/INTEGRAL telescope, we have analyzed all the archival data of the telescope available at the time of writing the paper (the observations from January 2003 to April 2009). We have detected 834 hard (15-25 keV) X-ray bursts, 239 of which were simultaneously recorded by the JEM-X/INTEGRAL telescope in the standard X-ray energy range. More than 70% of all bursts (587 events) have been recorded from the well-known X-ray burster GX 354-0. We have found upper limits on the distances to their sources by assuming that the Eddington luminosity limit was reached at the brightness maximum of the brightest bursts.
- Publication:
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Astronomy Letters
- Pub Date:
- September 2011
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1108.2421
- Bibcode:
- 2011AstL...37..597C
- Keywords:
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- X-ray bursts;
- X-ray bursters;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 18 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables