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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 379, 期 1, 页码 247-252出版社
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11943.x
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accretion, accretion discs; stars : neutron; X-rays : binaries
We have monitored the atoll-type neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-53 with Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) for more than 1.5 yr. Our campaign consisted of short (similar to 2 ks) pointings separated by 2 d, regularly monitoring the spectral and timing properties of the source. During the campaign we observed a clear long-term oscillation with a period of similar to 30-40 d, already seen in the light curves from the RXTE All-Sky Monitor, which corresponded to regular transitions between the hard (island) and soft (banana) states. We detected kilohertz (kHz) quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in about a third of the observations, most of which were in the soft (banana) state. The distribution of the frequencies of the peak identified as the lower kHz QPO is found to be different from that previously observed in an independent data set. This suggests that the kHz QPOs in the system shows no intrinsically preferred frequency.
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