Abstract
During a serendipitous observation of the BeppoSAX Wide Field Cameras, a very long type I X-ray burst was observed from the low mass X-ray binary Serpens X–1. The burst lasted for approximately 4 hours and had an exponential decay time of min (2–28 keV). The bolometric peak-luminosity is ( and the fluence ( erg. The first “normal" type I burst was observed 34 days after the superburst. This is in rough agreement with recent predictions for unstable carbon burning in a heavy element ocean.
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