Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-07-03
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 326 (2001) L27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted by MNRAS as a letter, 5 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04798.x
We present an analysis of the X-ray spectra of two strongly magnetic cataclysmic variables, DP Leo and WW Hor, made using XMM-Newton. Both systems were in intermediate levels of accretion. Hard optically thin X-ray emission from the shocked accreting gas was detected from both systems, while a soft blackbody X-ray component from the heated surface was detected only in DP Leo. We suggest that the lack of a soft X-ray component in WW Hor is due to the fact that the accretion area is larger than in previous observations with a resulting lower temperature for the re-processed hard X-rays. Using a multi-temperature model of the post-shock flow, we estimate that the white dwarf in both systems has a mass greater than 1 Msun. The implications of this result are discussed. We demonstrate that the `soft X-ray excess' observed in many magnetic cataclysmic variables can be partially attributed to using an inappropriate model for the hard X-ray emission.
Cordova France
Cropper Mark
Mason Keith
Much Rudi
Pandel Dirk
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