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Grb060602b = Swift J1749.4-2807: An Unusual Transiently Accreting Neutron-Star X-Ray Binary, R. Wijnands, E. Rol, E. Cackett, R. L. C. Starling, R. A. Remillard
Grb060602b = Swift J1749.4-2807: An Unusual Transiently Accreting Neutron-Star X-Ray Binary, R. Wijnands, E. Rol, E. Cackett, R. L. C. Starling, R. A. Remillard
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Research Publications
We present an analysis of the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) and X-ray telescope (XRT) data of GRB060602B, which is most likely an accreting neutron star in a binary system and not a gamma-ray burst. Our analysis shows that the BAT burst spectrum is consistent with a thermonuclear flash (type I X-ray burst) from the surface of an accreting neutron star in a binary system. The X-ray binary nature is further confirmed by the report of a detection of a faint point source at the position of the XRT counterpart of the burst in archival XMM-Newton data approximately six year …