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MAXI J1659โˆ’152: the shortest orbital period black-hole transient in outburst

MAXI J1659โˆ’152: the shortest orbital period black-hole transient in outburst

MAXI J1659โˆ’152 is a bright X-ray transient black-hole candidate binary system discovered in September 2010. We report here on MAXI, RXTE, Swift, and XMM-Newton observations during its 2010/2011 outburst. We find that during the first one and a half week of the outburst the X-ray light curves display drops in โ€ฆ