RXTE Observations of GRS 1915+105
Abstract
We report on extensive X-ray observations of the galactic superluminal motion source GRS 1915+105 with the RXTE satellite over the last year. More than 130 RXTE pointings have been performed. GRS 1915+105 displays drastic X-ray intensity variations on a variety of time scales ranging from sub-seconds to days. In general, the intensity changes are accompanied by spectral changes on the same timescale. Three types of bursts with typical durations between 10--100 sec have been identified which have drastically different spectral properties and seem to occur in a fixed sequence. One of the most intense bursts has a bolometric X-ray luminosity of about 5*10^39 erg/s during the 25 sec maximum-intensity part.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9706195,
title = {RXTE Observations of GRS 1915+105},
author = {J. Greiner and E. Morgan and R. Remillard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9706195},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages LATEX + 1 ps-figure, aipproc style file; Proc. of 4th Compton Symp., Williamsburg, April 1997; AIP Conf. Proc., eds. C.D. Dermer & J.D. Kurfess