Multiwavelength monitoring of GRS 1915+105

Bandyopadhyay, R.; Martini, P.; Gerard, E.; Charles, P. A.; Wagner, R. M.; Shrader, C.; Shahbaz, T.; Mirabel, I. F.; Mirabel, I. F.
Bibliographical reference

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 295, p. 623

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1998
Number of authors
9
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0
Citations
16
Refereed citations
13
Description
Since its discovery in 1992, the superluminal X-ray transient GRS 1915+105 has been extensively observed in an attempt to understand its behavior. We present here first results from a multiwavelength campaign undertaken from 1996 July to September. This study includes X-ray data from the RXTE All Sky Monitor and BATSE, two-frequency data from the Nancay radio telescope, and infrared photometry from the 1.8-m Perkins telescope at Lowell Observatory. The first long-term, well-sampled infrared light curve of GRS 1915+105 is presented herein; it is consistent with the interpretation of this source as a long-period binary. We compare the various light curves, searching for correlations in the behavior of the source at differing wavelengths and for possible periodicities.