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On the Fe K absorption – accretion state connection in the Galactic Centre neutron star X-ray binary AX J1745.6-2901

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 446:2 (2015) 1536-1550

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G Ponti, S Bianchi, T Muñoz-Darias, B De Marco, T Dwelly, RP Fender, K Nandra, N Rea, K Mori, D Haggard, CO Heinke, N Degenaar, T Aramaki, M Clavel, A Goldwurm, CJ Hailey, GL Israel, MR Morris, A Rushton, R Terrier
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Selection of Burst-like Transients and Stochastic Variables Using Multi-Band Image Differencing in the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey

(2015)

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S Kumar, S Gezari, S Heinis, R Chornock, E Berger, A Rest, ME Huber, RJ Foley, G Narayan, GH Marion, D Scolnic, A Soderberg, A Lawrence, CW Stubbs, RP Kirshner, AG Riess, SJ Smartt, K Smith, WM Wood-Vasey, WS Burgett, KC Chambers, H Flewelling, N Kaiser, N Metcalfe, PA Price, JL Tonry, RJ Wainscoat
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The Needle in the 100 deg2 Haystack: Uncovering Afterglows of Fermi GRBs with the Palomar Transient Factory

(2015)

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Leo P Singer, Mansi M Kasliwal, S Bradley Cenko, Daniel A Perley, Gemma E Anderson, GC Anupama, Iair Arcavi, Varun Bhalerao, Brian D Bue, Yi Cao, Valerie Connaughton, Alessandra Corsi, Antonino Cucchiara, Rob P Fender, Derek B Fox, Neil Gehrels, Adam Goldstein, J Gorosabel, Assaf Horesh, Kevin Hurley, Joel Johansson, DA Kann, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Kuiyun Huang, SR Kulkarni, Frank Masci, Peter Nugent, Arne Rau, Umaa D Rebbapragada, Tim D Staley, Dmitry Svinkin, CC Thöne, A de Ugarte Postigo, Yuji Urata, Alan Weinstein
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A prompt radio transient associated with a gamma-ray superflare from the young M dwarf binary DG CVn

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters Oxford University Press (OUP) 446:1 (2015) l66-l70

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RP Fender, GE Anderson, R Osten, T Staley, C Rumsey, K Grainge, RDE Saunders
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Multi-wavelength studies of high-latitude black-Hole X-ray transients

Proceedings of Science 1-5-June-2015 (2015)

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PA Charles, AW Shaw, M Coriat, P Gandhi, LJ Townsend, P Woudt, J Casares, DL Foster, MM Kotze, D Steeghs, RP Fender, AA Zdziarski

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Over the last 25 years ∼75% of the low-mass X-ray binary X-ray transients have been shown to contain black-hole compact objects, based on optical spectroscopy of their kinematics when in quiescence. Because many of these systems are extremely faint in quiescence and unobservable, we have utilised the method of studying them when in X-ray outburst that exploits the fluores- cence features produced by X-ray irradiation of the donor's inner face, thereby allowing us to track the motion of the donor. Such outbursts are unpredictable and hence these studies must necessarily be through Target-of-Opportunity programs, and hence are ideal for SALT for accessible targets. Here we report on our SALT ToO studies of two transients, both believed to contain black holes and both at high galactic latitude.