A section of the X-ray light curve of 1A 1118-616 as observed by the RXTE/ASM (smoothed using a running mean of five consecutive days). The large burst of January 2009, reaching a peak flux of 7.6cts/s at MJD 54845.4 is included. The short vertical lines are at phase 0.0 with respect to the ephemeris with P_orb = 24.012 d and the arrows point to those small flares with peak fluxes  >0.5cts/s (dotted horizontal line), which happen close to phase 0.0 (several others appear to happen close to phase 0.5).