Search for Millisecond Periodicities in Type I Xray Bursts of the Rapid Burster.pdfVIP

A Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 000, 1–7 (2000) Printed 1 February 2008 (MN LT X style file v1.4) E Search for Millisecond Periodicities in Type I X-ray Bursts of the Rapid Burster D. W. Fox,1⋆ W. H. G. Lewin,1 R. E. Rutledge,2 E. H. Morgan,1 R. Guerriero,3 L. Bildsten,4 M. van der Klis,5 J. van Paradijs,5,6† C. B. Moore,7 T. Dotani,8 K. Asai8 1 Center for Space Research and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139–4307, USA 2Space Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MC 220-47, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 0 3Department of Physics, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996, USA 0 4 Institute for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA 0 5Astronomical Institute ‘Anton Pannekoek’ and Center for High-Energy Physics, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 6Department of Physics, University of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA 7 p 8Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, MS 78, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA e Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan S ⋆ derekfox@ 4 †Deceased 1 1 v Accepted date. Received date. 4 2 2 ABSTRACT 9 We have searched the rising portion of type I X-ray bursts observed from the Rapid 0 Burster with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer for the presence of periodicities. The 0 95 per cent confidence upper limit on the average root