Stars: Binaries: Close

We present optical and infrared monitoring of the 2005 outburst of the halo black hole X-ray transient XTE J1118+480. We measured a total outburst amplitude of åisebox-0.5ex 5.7+/-0.1 mag in the R band and i̊sebox-0.5ex 5 mag in the infrared J, H, …