Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-07-20
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.372:224-232,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10836.x
Analysis of INTEGRAL/IBIS survey observations has revealed that the rare intermediate polar and asynchronous polar cataclysmic variables are consistently found to emit in the 20-100 keV energy band, whereas synchronous polars and the common non-magnetic CVs rarely do so. From the correlation of a candidate INTEGRAL/IBIS survey source list with a CV catalogue, 15 CV detections by IBIS have been established including a new INTEGRAL source IGR J06253+7334. The properties of these sources and 4 additional CV candidates are discussed in the context of their 20-100 keV emission characteristics and we conclude that the INTEGRAL mission is an important tool in the detection of new magnetic CV systems. Furthermore, analysis of the time-averaged spectra of CVs detected by INTEGRAL indicate that although there is little difference between the spectral slopes of the different sub-types, intermediate polars may be considerably more luminous than polars in the soft gamma-ray regime. We also present the detection of an unusual high-energy burst from V1223 Sgr discovered by inspection of the IBIS light-curve. Additionally, we have compared the IBIS and optical AAVSO light-curves of SS Cyg and extracted IBIS spectra during single periods of optical outburst and quiescence. We find that the 20-100 keV flux is an order of magnitude greater during optical quiescence. This is in agreement with previous studies which show that the hard X-ray component of SS Cyg is suppressed during high accretion states
Barlow E. J.
Bird Andrew J.
Clark David J.
Dean Anthony J.
Hill Adam B.
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