XMM-Newton Proposal 02037901

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Mar 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003xmm..prop..198h&link_type=abstract

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Qu Car, Xmm-Newton Proposal 02037901

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In recent UV and optical studies the interacting binary star, QU Car, has been shown to be the most luminous nova-like variable star ever observed and may even be as luminous as the supersoft X-ray sources. It also displays spectral characteristics that would suggest a close similarity to the supersoft sources. We propose to measure the X-ray brightness of QU Car with XMM to establish decisively whether it is a supersoft X-ray source and, if it is not, to understand just how a luminous interacting binary system with such a high rate of mass transfer avoids being a supersoft.

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