During more than 3 years ( August 1996–October 1999 ) monitoring of a 40 \degr \times 40 \degr sky region around the Galactic Centre by the Wide Field Cameras on board BeppoSAX , a total of 8 type-I bursts have been detected from a sky position consistent with that of 4U 1812 - 12 , a likely neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary .
We present the results of a detailed study of the bursts of 4U 1812 - 12 , about 15 years after the last reported observations of X-ray bursts from this source ( [ Murakami et al .
1983 ] ) .
Clear evidence for photospheric radius expansion due to Eddington-limited burst luminosity is present in most of the observed events , allowing an accurate estimate of the source distance ( \sim 4 kpc ) and its burst parameters .