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An Extended and More Sensitive Search for Periodicities in RXTE/ASM X-ray Light Curves

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-05-19 v1

Abstract

We present the results of a systematic search in approximately 14 years of Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer All-Sky Monitor data for evidence of periodicities not reported by Wen et al. (2006). Two variations of the commonly used Fourier analysis search method have been employed to achieve significant improvements in sensitivity. The use of these methods and the accumulation of additional data have resulted in the detection of the signatures of the orbital periods of eight low-mass X-ray binary systems and of ten high-mass X-ray binaries not listed in the tables of Wen et al.

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@article{arxiv.1009.0450,
  title  = {An Extended and More Sensitive Search for Periodicities in RXTE/ASM X-ray Light Curves},
  author = {Alan M. Levine and Hale V. Bradt and Deepto Chakrabarty and Robin H. D. Corbet and Robert J. Harris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.0450},
  year   = {2015}
}

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20 pages, 22 figures, in emulateapj format; submitted to ApJS