Residual accretion episodes during quiescence in XTE J1701−462. a) Evolution of T_b assumed during residual accretion episodes A and B (dashed and dotted lines, respectively). b) Cooling curves from fitting filled symbol data without residual accretion: solid line is the best fit with χ² = 0.53 and brown band has χ²< 1 (with Ṁ₁₈ = 0.7 − 1.3 and T_c,8 = 1.3 − 1.8). The dashed and dotted lines (χ² = 0.55,0.63) include residual accretion through , respectively.