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Observations of 4U 1608-52
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2016
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Tananbaum et al. (1976) have recently added to the Uhuru catalogue 4U1608-52, a source varying by over an order of magnitude in a time span of some months. They identified the object with MXB1608-52, a highly variable X-ray source of flares and bursts. (Kaluzienski et al. 1976; Belian et al. 1976; Grindlay and Gursky 1976a, b; Li 1976). There have been a number of earlier X-ray observations of sources very close to 4U1608-52 (Cooke and Pounds 1971; Luyendyk et al. 1973; Thomas et al. 1975; Grindlay and Gursky 1976b; Ricker et al. 1976), and in this paper we propose the identification of these earlier sources with 4U1608-52. We thereby obtain additional spectral information and can now rule out a globular cluster as the optical counterpart of the object.
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- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , September 1977 , pp. 122 - 124
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1977