The Importance of Monitoring Soft X-ray Sources

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Jul 2004

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X-RAY TIMING 2003: Rossie and Beyond. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 714, pp. 451-454 (2004).

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X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation, Spaceborne And Space Research Instruments, Apparatus, And Components, X- And Gamma-Ray Instruments

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The next generation of X-ray monitoring missions should include detectors sensitive to X-rays with energies below 2 keV. This capability will allow us to explore the physics associated with soft sources, including hot white dwarfs, intermediate-mass black holes, soft active galactic nuclei, soft emission in γ-ray burst afterglows, and many X-ray active stars. I also show, using Chandra data from 4 galaxies, that more than half of the photons from even so-called ``canonical'' X-ray sources (with strong emission signatures above 2 keV) have energies below 2 keV. This suggests that soft-X-ray monitoring can open new doors to our understanding of even well-studied sources.

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