2000A&A...357..527C

During more than 3 years (August 1996-October 1999) monitoring of a 40°x40° sky region around the Galactic Centre by the Wide Field Cameras on board BeppoSAX, a total of 8 type-I bursts have been detected from a sky position consistent with that of 4U 1812-12, a likely neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary. We present the results of a detailed study of the bursts of 4U 1812-12, about 15 years after the last reported observations of X-ray bursts from this source (Murakami et al., 1983PASJ...35..531M). Clear evidence for photospheric radius expansion due to Eddington-limited burst luminosity is present in most of the observed events, allowing an accurate estimate of the source distance (∼4kpc) and its burst parameters.