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TTM Observations of X1755-338

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

H.C. Pan ,
G.K. Skinner ,
R.A. Sunyaev  and
K.N. Borozdin
H.C. Pan
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Space Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK Department of Physics (Theoretical Physics), University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, UK
G.K. Skinner
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Space Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
R.A. Sunyaev
Affiliation:
IKI, Space Research Institute, Profsoyuznaya, 84/32, Moscow 117296, Russia
K.N. Borozdin
Affiliation:
IKI, Space Research Institute, Profsoyuznaya, 84/32, Moscow 117296, Russia

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X1755-338 is an X-ray binary source which displays X-ray dips with a 4.4 hour period (White et al. 1984). It was previously noted as an unusually soft X-ray source by Jones (1977) and was suggested later as a black-hole candidate (BHC) by White & Marshall (1984), and White et al. (1984), based on the similarity of its location in an X-ray colour-colour diagram to that of a group of BHCs.

The TTM is a coded-mask imaging spectrometer on board the KVANT module of the MIR space station. It is capable of producing images in the 2 – 30 keV band with an energy resolution of about 18% at 6 keV. The instrumental details are given in Brinkman et al. (1985).

We observed X1755-338 in 1989 March-September during the period of the TTM Galactic Centre Survey.

Type
High-Energy Transients
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 151: Flares and Flashes , 1995 , pp. 334 - 335
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1995

References

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