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J/PAZh/28/323     Transient X-ray burster KS 1731-260    (Aleksandrovich+, 2002)
Long-Term-Mir-Kvant observations of the transient X-ray burster KS 1731-260.
     Aleksandrovich N.L., Revnivtsev M.G., Aref'ev V.A., Sunyaev R.A.,
     Skinner G.K.
    <Pis'ma Astron. Zh. 28, 323 (2002)>
    =2002PAZh...28..323A
    =2002AstL...28..279A
ADC_Keywords: X-ray sources


Abstract:
    Observations of the transient X-ray burster KS 1731-260 from 1988
    until 1999 with the Kvant/TTM telescope supplemented with published
    data from the ASM and PCA instruments of the RXTE observatory for
    1996-2001.
Objects:
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      RA   (2000)   DE        Designation(s)
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
    17 34 13.45 -26 05 18.7   KS 1731-260 = 1RXS J173413.0-260527
    --------------------------------------------------------------------

File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
table.dat         47      130   Observational data on burster KS 1731-260


Byte-by-byte Description of file: table.dat

   Bytes Format  Units        Label    Explanations

   1- 10  A10    "DD/MM/YYYY" Date     Date of observation
  14- 24  F11.3  d            JD       [2447455/2451357] Date
  27- 31  F5.2   min          ExpTime  Time of exposure
  34- 37  F4.2   deg          R        Angular distance of the source from
                                         the center of the TTM field of view
      40  A1     ---          l_Flux   [<] Upper limit on Flux   (1)
  41- 43  I3    16.4eV/s/cm+2 Flux     Flux for 2-27 keV energy band, in mCrab
  46- 47  I2    16.4eV/s/cm+2 e_Flux   ? Mean error on Flux, in mCrab (1)

Note (1): Upper limit on Flux is given for the sessions when the source
    was not detected.

(End)                  Veta Avedisova (INASAN)                       24-Oct-2002