RXTE Studies of Cyclotron Lines in Accreting Pulsars
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
In this paper, we summarize the RXTE measurements of cyclotron resonance scattering features in 8 accreting pulsars. The wide bandpass and modest resolution of the RXTE instruments make them ideal for measuring these generally broad features. In particular, the high energy response of HEXTE provides a window for discovery of new lines not detectable with proportional counters such as Ginga or the PCA alone.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0004300,
title = {RXTE Studies of Cyclotron Lines in Accreting Pulsars},
author = {W. A. Heindl and W. Coburn and D. E. Gruber and M. Pelling and R. E. Rothschild and P. Kretschmar and I. Kreykenbohm and J. Wilms and K. Pottschmidt and R. Staubert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0004300},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages. To appear in "Proceedings of the 5th Compton Symposium"