Optical re-brightening of the black hole binary XTE J1859+226

Corral-Santana, J. M.; Rodríguez-Gil, P.; Hurley, D.; Casares, J.
Bibliographical reference

The Astronomer's Telegram, #2845

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9
2010
Number of authors
4
IAC number of authors
0
Citations
2
Refereed citations
2
Description
Observations of the black hole binary XTE J1859+226 revealed an unexpected optical re-brightening. Images were taken with the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) using ALFOSC on Jul 13-14, the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) with ACAM on Aug 8 and the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) with WFC on Aug 19 at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain. The target is found ~1 magnitude brighter than its quiescence level of R=22.48 +- 0.07 as reported in Zurita et al.