RXTE highlights of 34.85-day cycle of Her X-1

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1998-06-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9806126v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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7 pages with 4 eps figures (large figures 1, 4a,b, 5a,b are available at ftp://xray.sai.msu.su/pub/preprints/Prokhorov/rxte/ o

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An analysis of the publically available RXTE archive on Her X-1 including data on 23 34.85-day cycles is performed. The turn-on times for these cycles are determined. The number of cycles with a duration of 20.5 orbits has been found exceedingly larger than of shorter (20 orbits) or longer (21 orbits). A correlation between the duration of a cycle and its mean X-ray flux is noted. The mean X-ray light curve shows a very distinct short-on state. The anomalous X-ray absorption dip is found during the first orbit after the turn-on in the main-on state for the cycles starting near the binary phase 0.25, while is present during two successive orbits in the low-on state. The post-eclipse recovery feature have not been found in the main-on state but appears at least for two orbits during the low-on state. The pre-eclipse dips are present both in main-on and low-on state and demonstrate the behaviour as in early observations. The comparison of durations of the main-on and short-on states enabled us to constrain the accretion disk semi-thickness and its inclination to the orbital plane.

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