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XMM-Newton EPIC observations of Her X-1

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We present spin-resolved X-ray data of the neutron star binary Her X-1. We find evidence that the Iron line at 6.4 keV originates from the same location as the blackbody X-ray component. The line width and energy varies over both the spin period and the 35 day precession period. We also find that the correlation between the soft and hard X-ray light curves varies over the 35 day period.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0201526,
  title  = {XMM-Newton EPIC observations of Her X-1},
  author = {G. Ramsay and S. Zane and M. A. Jimenez-Garate and J. W. den Herder and C. J. Hailey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0201526},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

To appear in Proc Symp. 'New Visions of the X-ray universe in the XMM_Newton and Chandra era', 26-30 Nov 2001, ESTEC, Netherland, ESA SP-488