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1996A&A...307L..49V - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 307L49-52 (1996/3-3)

Optical identification of the supersoft X-ray source RX J0439.8-6809.

VAN TEESELING A., REINSCH K. and BEUERMANN K.

Abstract (from CDS):

We have identified RX J0439.X-6809 with a very blue B=21.5 object. There is no evidence for x-ray or optical variability. The optical spectrum does not show any absorption or emission features. The very blue optical spectrum suggests that the optical flux is the Rayleigh-Jeans tail of the soft X-ray component. The spectral parameters are consistent with a location in the Large Magellanic Cloud. RX J0439 may be an accreting binary in which a low-mass white dwarf is recurrently burning accreted matter with a very long X-ray on-time. Alternatively, RX J0439 may be a ∼1M☉ post-AGB star, which may have re-entered the high-luminosity phase due to a late helium shell flash.

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Journal keyword(s): accretion - stars: individual: RX J0439.8-6809 - stars: post-AGB - white dwarfs - X-rays: stars

Simbad objects: 5

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