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GS 1826-24 2000 Sep

This profile forms part of the sample assembled for the paper "Thermonuclear burst observations for model comparisons: a reference catalogue" by Galloway, Goodwin & Keek (2017), to be submitted to PASA

This profile is an average calculated from the profiles of MINBAR bursts #2675, 2677, 2678, 2679, & 2681 (#14, 16, 17, 19 & 20 in Galloway et al. 2008, ApJS 179, 360), of GS 1826-24, observed on MJD 51808 by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). Burst #2681 is the "key", from which the time bins for the average profile are taken. Two additional bursts (#2676 & 2680, or #15 & 18 in G08) observed on that day were excluded from the average because high time resolution data covering the burst was not available.

Average recurrence time is 4.177±0.010 hr.

The burst recurrence time is derived from a linear fit to the times of these 7 RXTE bursts and 25 additional bursts observed by BeppoSAX/WFC around the same time. Assumed cycle count is [0,2,7,13,15,17,18,19,20,21,22]. The fit incorporates intrinsic variations in the recurrence time, arising (for example) from the variations in accretion rate over the interval

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The figure shows the results of time-resolved spectroscopic analysis. The estimated bolometric flux is plotted as green symbols & line, in units of 10-9 erg cm-2 s-1 (inner left-hand y-scale). The blackbody temperature kT is shown as purple symbols & line (right-hand y-axis, units of keV) and the normalisation as the aqua symbols & line (outermost left-hand y-scale, units of R2/d2, where R is the emitting radius in km, and d the distance to the source in units of 10 kpc).

This version of the data now includes deadtime correction (see http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/recipes/pca_deadtime.html) and has the updated effective area of the v11.7 responses (see http://www.universe.nasa.gov/xrays/programs/rxte/pca/doc/rmf/pca-arf-2011

All uncertainties are at 1-sigma (68%) confidence. Note that the time value specifies the BEGINNING of the time bin

For full details of the source sample see the MINBAR home page

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