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earth and planetary sciences

Periodic UV modulation of X1850 - 087: A double degenerate binary in the globular cluster NGC 6712?

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 282, No. 3, Year 1996

We report the discovery with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of a short-period (20.6 min) UV modulation in X1850 - 087, the luminous X-ray source in the globular cluster NGC 6712. The low-amplitude modulation (0.044 ± 0.007 mag) is not detected in archival X-ray observations with EXOSAT. We compare the properties of X1850 - 087 with the 11-min binary X1820 - 303 and identify the modulation as the orbital period, which requires the mass-losing companion to be degenerate and of low mass (0.04 M⊙).

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Citations: 51
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 6
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Doi: 10.1093/mnras/282.3.L37
ISSN: 00358711

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