Recent Hubble Space Telescope results on X-ray novae

RXTE has recently discovered two newoptically bright black hole candidates (BHCs): XTE J1859+226 andXTE J1118+480. We observed both with HST/STIS, the firstoutburst observations of X-ray novae with this instrument. We followed broad band spectral evolution, detectedcorrelated X-ray/UV rapid variabil...

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Published in:Astrophysics and space science 2001-01, Vol.276, p.61-62
Main Authors: Hynes, Ri, Haswell, Ca, Chaty, S, Shrader, Cr, Cui, W, Mauche, Cw
Format: Article
Language:English
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Space telescopes
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Summary:RXTE has recently discovered two newoptically bright black hole candidates (BHCs): XTE J1859+226 andXTE J1118+480. We observed both with HST/STIS, the firstoutburst observations of X-ray novae with this instrument. We followed broad band spectral evolution, detectedcorrelated X-ray/UV rapid variability and performed high resolution UVspectroscopy. We present a summary ofinitial results on the spectral energy distributions observed.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0004-640X
1572-946X
DOI:10.1023/A:1011632122127