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Download fileObservations of the extreme-ultraviolet transient RE J1255+266: a short outburst of a WZ Sge system?
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posted on 2012-10-03, 14:29 authored by P.J. Wheatley, M.R. Burleigh, Michael G. WatsonWe present a previously unpublished ROSAT Wide Field Camera observation of the transient source RE J1255+266 made just 4 d before the discovery observations. The source is not detected, limiting the duration of the outburst to be less than expected for a superoutburst of a WZ Sge system.We also present a marginal detection of X-ray emission from RE J1255+266 using ASCA. The most probable luminosity is 6x10(29) erg s(-1), which is very similar to WZ Sge itself.We discuss the nature of the source in the light of these observations, and conclude that it is most probably a WZ Sge system, but that the observed outburst must have been a normal dwarf nova outburst.
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2000, 317 (2), pp. 343-347 (5)Author affiliation
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Science & TechnologyPhysical SciencesAstronomy & Astrophysicsaccretion, accretion discsbinaries : closestars : individual : RE J1255+266stars : low-mass, brown dwarfsnovae, cataclysmic variablesX-rays : starsALL-SKY SURVEYWIDE FIELD CAMERANOVA VW HYDRICATACLYSMIC VARIABLESDWARF NOVAEUVE OBSERVATIONSSS CYGNIX-RAYROSATSAGITTAE