Exploratory X-ray Observations of Quiescent Recurrent Novae in CVs

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Oct 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008xmm..prop...78m&link_type=abstract

XMM-Newton Proposal ID #06030704

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White Dwarf Binaries, Neutron Star Binaries, Cataclysmic Variables, Ulxs, Black Holes, V394 Cra, Ci Aql, Im Nor, U Sco

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For a binary to be a recurrent nova (RN), it must contain a massive white dwarf near the Chandrasekhar limit, making it a candidate progenitor of type Ia supernova. The symbiotic RN, T CrB, is now known to be a ~10^34 erg/s hard X-ray source. While we have initiated a program of pointed X-ray observations of symbiotic RN systems, other RNe are in cataclysmic variable (CV) systems with a Roche-lobe filling mass donor. Because we believe that the high X-ray temperature and luminosity seen in T CrB are due to the high mass of the white dwarf, we expect that there are additional X-ray luminous objects among CV RNe. We propose to test this prediction by observing 4 such objects (V394 CrA, CI Aql, IM Nor and U Sco) in quiescence with XMM-Newton.

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