Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 1981
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981apj...251..630k&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 251, Dec. 15, 1981, p. 630-638.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Apsides, Binary Stars, Pulsars, Stellar Motions, Stellar Structure, X Ray Sources, Orbital Mechanics, Stellar Interiors, Stellar Mass, Uhuru Satellite
Scientific paper
The measurement of apsidal motion provides one of the few experimental tests of models of stellar interiors. Binary X-ray pulsars are suited for a potentially important application of the apsidal motion test because of their generally close orbits and the precision with which their orbits can often be measured. The orbit of the X-ray pulsar 4U0115+63 was determined by Rappaport et al. (1978). The orbital parameters were determined with sufficient precision to make possible a measurement of apsidal motion if a second observation of the source could be made. However, 4U0115+63 has not been observed to be active since its 1978 outburst. An analysis has, therefore, been conducted of the archival Uhuru data of the first recorded outburst of this source in early 1971. The results of this analysis are combined with the 1978 observations. It is concluded that apsidal motion would have been detectable if the companion were a rapidly rotating star with a mass not less than 30 solar masses.
Brodheim M. J.
Cominsky Lynn
Kelley Richard L.
Rappaport Saul
Stothers Richard
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