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Detection of the first thermonuclear X-ray burst from AX J1754.2-2754

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When analyzing the archival data of the INTEGRAL observatory, we detected an intense X-ray burst recorded on April 16, 2005, by the JEM-X and IBIS/ISGRI telescopes from the weak and poorly studied source AX J1754.2-2754. Analysis of its time profiles and spectra allows this event to be attributed to type I X-ray bursts associated with thermonuclear explosions on the surfaces of neutron stars and the source itself to X-ray bursters. Peculiarities of the X-ray emission observed at the initial evolutionary phase of the burst point to a dramatic expansion and a corresponding cooling of the neutron star photosphere that took place at this time under the action of radiation pressure. Assuming the luminosity of the source at this phase to be the Eddington one, we have estimated the distance to the burst to be d = 6.6 ± 0.3 kpc (for a hydrogen atmosphere of the neutron star) and d = 9.2 ± 0.4 kpc (for a helium atmosphere).

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  1. Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia

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Original Russian Text © I.V. Chelovekov, S.A. Grebenev, 2007, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2007, Vol. 33, No. 12, pp. 903–909.

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Chelovekov, I.V., Grebenev, S.A. Detection of the first thermonuclear X-ray burst from AX J1754.2-2754. Astron. Lett. 33, 807–813 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773707120043

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