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Observations of the extreme-ultraviolet transient RE J1255+266: a short outburst of a WZ Sge system?
Article first published online: 4 APR 2002
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03569.x
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume 317, Issue 2, pages 343–347, September 2000
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Wheatley, P. J., Burleigh, M. R. and Watson, M. G. (2000), Observations of the extreme-ultraviolet transient RE J1255+266: a short outburst of a WZ Sge system?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 317: 343–347. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03569.x
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- Issue published online: 4 APR 2002
- Article first published online: 4 APR 2002
- Accepted 2000 March 20. Received 1999 November 4; in original form 1999 July 16.
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Keywords:
- accretion, accretion discs;
- binaries: close;
- stars: individual: RE J1255+266;
- stars: low-mass, brown dwarfs;
- novae, cataclysmic variables;
- X-rays: stars
We present a previously unpublished ROSAT Wide Field Camera observation of the transient source RE J1255+266 made just 4 d before the discovery observations. The source is not detected, limiting the duration of the outburst to be less than expected for a superoutburst of a WZ Sge system.
We also present a marginal detection of X-ray emission from RE J1255+266 using ASCA. The most probable luminosity is 6×1029 erg s−1, which is very similar to WZ Sge itself.
We discuss the nature of the source in the light of these observations, and conclude that it is most probably a WZ Sge system, but that the observed outburst must have been a normal dwarf nova outburst.