Astrophysical: Neutron stars

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    Chandra observations of the M31 transients XMMU J004215.8+411924 and SWIFT J004217.4+411532
    We report on 3 Chandra ACIS-I observations containing the two M31 transient X-ray sources announced by Haberl et al. (2006, ATel #881) and followed up by...
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    Chandra Observations of the M31 X-Ray Transient SWIFT J004320.5+411528
    As part of our ongoing Chandra/HST M31 transient program we report on a Chandra ACIS observation of M31 containing the new transient source reported by Pietsch...
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    Chandra Observations of the M31 X-Ray Transients XMMU J004245.9+411036 and XMMU J004241.2+411821
    As part of our ongoing Chandra/HST M31 transient program we report on Chandra ACIS observations of M31 containing the new transient sources reported by Pietsch...
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    Chemical composition of secondary stars in LMXBs: implications on the progenitors of black holes and neutron stars
    Recent studies of chemical abundances of secondary stars in low mass X-ray binaries have opened a new window to obtain information on the progenitors of black...
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    Confirmation of the NIR counterparts to SLX 1746-331 and XTE J1810-189
    We present infrared observations of the counterparts to the X- ray transients SLX 1746-331 and XTE J1810-189 obtained with the 6.5m Magellan Baade telescope at...
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    Correction to ATEL 871: A Swift/XRT observation of Aql X-1 during its recent outburst
    In ATEL #871 the fluxes were incorrectly quoted. All the fluxes should be multiplied by 1E-10 in order to obtain the correct values. The quoted luminosities are...
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    Deep X-Ray and Radio Observations of the First Outburst of the Young Magnetar Swift J1818.0-1607
    Swift J1818.0-1607 is a radio-loud magnetar with a spin period of 1.36 s and a dipolar magnetic field strength of B ~ 3 × 10 14 G, which is very young compared...
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    Detection of coherent millisecond pulsations at ~518 Hz in the LMXB Swift J1749.4-2807 (GRB060602B)
    On April 10th, it was discovered (ATel #2548) using INTEGRAL that the neutron-star X-ray binary Swift J1749.4-2807 (Wijnands et al. 2009, MNRAS, 393, 126) was...
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    Detection of pulsations and identification of SAX J1748.9-2021 as the X-ray transient in NGC 6440.
    On the 28th of December, MAXI/GSC detected an X-ray outburst from the globular cluster NGC6440 (Atel #2360), which has continued to the present.