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Short-Duration X-ray Transients Observed With WATCH on Granat: Are Some of Them Related to Stellar Flares?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Alberto J. Castro-Tirado ,
Søren Brandt ,
Niels Lund ,
Igor Lapshov  and
Rashid Sunyaev
Alberto J. Castro-Tirado
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Astrofísica Espacial y Física Fundamental (LAEFF-INTA), P.O. Box 50727, E-28080 Madrid, Spain
Søren Brandt
Affiliation:
Danish Space Research Institute, Gl. Lundtoftevej 7, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
Niels Lund
Affiliation:
Danish Space Research Institute, Gl. Lundtoftevej 7, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
Igor Lapshov
Affiliation:
Space Research Institute, Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117810 Moscow, Russia
Rashid Sunyaev
Affiliation:
Space Research Institute, Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117810 Moscow, Russia

Abstract

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During 1990-92, the WATCH all-sky X-ray monitor on GRANAT has discovered 6 short-duration X-ray transients. We discuss their possible relationship to peculiar stars. Only one source, GRS 1100-77 seems to be related to a T Tauri star.

Type
Flares in Late-type Stars: UV and X-ray
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 151: Flares and Flashes , 1995 , pp. 158 - 163
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1995

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