See our ATels with the first optical results from Faulkes in September 2010 here and the fade towards quiescence in July 2011 here. Read the paper we contributed to by Corral-Santana et al., “The long-term optical evolution of the black hole candidate MAXI J1659-152” here.

Outburst i’-band images

Whole outburst light curve

Variability study on 2011-06-02

Variability study on 2010-09-26 (22 hours after the initial Swift trigger) and 2010-09-28

Variability study on 2010-10-05 (bad conditions)

Finding charts

Click here to return to the main XRB page