THE RETURN OF THE BURSTS: THERMONUCLEAR FLASHES FROM CIRCINUS X-1

@article{Linares2010THERO,
  title={THE RETURN OF THE BURSTS: THERMONUCLEAR FLASHES FROM CIRCINUS X-1},
  author={M. Linares and Anthony Watts and Diego Altamirano and Paolo Soleri and Nathalie Degenaar and Y. J. Yang and Rudy Wijnands and Piergiorgio Casella and Jeroen Homan and Deepto Chakrabarty and Nanda Rea and M. Armas-Padilla and Yuri Cavecchi and M. Kalamkar and Ramanpreet Kaur and Alessandro Patruno and Michiel van der Klis},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal Letters},
  year={2010},
  volume={719},
  pages={L84 - L89}
}
We report the detection of 15 X-ray bursts with RXTE and Swift observations of the peculiar X-ray binary Circinus X-1 (Cir X-1) during its 2010 May X-ray re-brightening. These are the first X-ray bursts observed from the source after the initial discovery by Tennant and collaborators, 25 years ago. By studying their spectral evolution, we firmly identify nine of the bursts as type I (thermonuclear) X-ray bursts. We obtain an arcsecond location of the bursts that confirms once and for all the… 
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