X-ray, radio, and infrared observations of the 'rapid burster' /MXB 1730-335/ during 1979 and 1980

Lawrence, A.; Cominsky, L.; Lewin, W. H. G.; Oda, M.; Ogawara, Y.; Inoue, H.; Koyama, K.; Makishima, K.; Matsuoka, M.; Murakami, T.; Ohashi, T.; Shibazaki, N.; Tanaka, Y.; Kondo, I.; Hayakawa, S.; Kunieda, H.; Makino, F.; Masai, K.; Nagase, F.; Tawara, Y.; Miyamoto, S.; Tsunemi, H.; Yamashita, K.; Daishido, T.; Oka, R.; Ohkawa, T.; Maruyama, T.; Yokoyama, T.; Nicholson, G.; Balonek, T.; Dent, W. A.; Glass, I. S.; Carter, B. S.; Jones, A. W.; Selby, M. J.; Martinez-Roger, C.; Sanchez Magro, C.; Giles, A. B.; Duldig, M.; Pramesh Rao, A.; Venugopal, V. R.; Haynes, R. F.; Jauncey, D. L.; Okuda, H.; Sato, S.; Kobayashi, Y.; Jugaku, J.; Backman, D.; Pogge, R.; Hodge, P. E.; Aller, H. D.; van Paradijs, J.
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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 267, Apr. 1, 1983, p. 301-309.

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1983
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The paper reports partially simultaneous observations of the 'rapid burster' (MXB 1730-335) at X-ray, infrared, and radio wavelengths, covering several hundred hours during 1979 and 1980. None of the authors of this report saw any infrared or radio bursts. On several occasions an absence of infrared bursting was observed during X-ray bursting. On one occasion an absence of X-ray bursting was observed during a radio burst (4.1 GHz) reported by Calla et al. (1979). To date, radio bursts (a total of at least a dozen) have been reported only by Calla et al. (1980). Considering these and other observations summarized here, the reported radio bursts are either unreal or do not bear a simple relation to the X-ray bursts from the 'rapid burster'. The status of the reported infrared bursts also remain ambiguous. Limits to the brightness of any persistent radio source at the position of MXB 1730-335, limits to persistent X-ray emission during an extended X-ray quiet phase, and a measurement of the infrared polarization in the direction of the X-ray source are also reported.