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Feb 2010
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American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #11, #19.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.689
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The nova-like cataclysmic binary AE Aqr was observed for over two binary orbits in 2005 August with the High-Energy Transmission Grating onboard the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The resulting spectrum is reasonably well fit by an optically thin multi-temperature thermal plasma model with a Gaussian emission measure distribution that peaks at log T (K)=7.16, has a width sigma=0.4, an Fe abundance equal to 0.44 times solar, other metal abundances equal to 0.76 times solar, an emission measure EM=8.0x1053 cm-3, and a 0.5-10 keV X-ray luminosity LX=1.1x1031 erg s-1. Based on the f/(i+r) flux ratios of the He alpha triplets of N VI, O VII, Ne IX, Mg XI, and Si XIII in the XMM-Newton RGS and Chandra HETG spectra, we find that either the electron density of the plasma increases with temperature by over three orders of magnitude, from ne 6x1010 cm-3 for N VI to ne 1x1014 cm-3 for Si XIII, and/or the plasma is significantly affected by photoexcitation. The radial velocity of the X-ray emission lines varies on the white dwarf spin phase, with two oscillations per spin cycle and an amplitude K 160 km s-1 . These results appear to be inconsistent with the recent models of Itoh et al., Ikhsanov, and Venter & Meintjes of an extended, low-density source of X-rays in AE Aqr, but instead support earlier models in which the dominant source of X-rays is of high density and/or in close proximity to the white dwarf.
Support for this work was provided by NASA through Chandra Award Number GO5-6020X issued by the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center, which is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for and on behalf of NASA under contract NAS8-03060. This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.
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