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Article Contents
1 Introduction
2 Principle: a critical mass transfer rate below which accretion becomes transient
3 Tool: the X-ray burst phenomenon in UCXBs
4 Data
5 Results: six new candidate UCXBs
6 Confirmation of low $\dot{\textit{\textbf{{M}}}}$ through a hard X-ray color
7 Discussion
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