BATSE SD Observations of Hercules X-1

Details BATSE SD Observations of Hercules X-1 BATSE SD Observations of Hercules X-1

1996-01-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9601167v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, LaTeX (style files aipbook.sty, aps.sty, aps10.sty, prabib.sty, psfig.sty, and revtex.sty included with PAPER.tex), 2

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.51738

The cyclotron line in the spectrum of the accretion-powered pulsar Her X-1 offers an opportunity to assess the ability of the BATSE Spectroscopy Detectors (SDs) to detect lines like those seen in some GRBs. Preliminary analysis of an initial SD pulsar mode observation of Her X-1 indicated a cyclotron line at an energy of approximately 44 keV, rather than at the expected energy of approximately 36 keV. Our analysis of four SD pulsar mode observations of Her X-1 made during high-states of its 35 day cycle confirms this result. We consider a number of phenomenological models for the continuum spectrum and the cyclotron line. This ensures that we use the simplest models that adequately describe the data, and that our results are robust. We find modest evidence (significance Q ~ 10^-4-10^-2) for a line at approximately 44 keV in the data of the first observation. Joint fits to the four observations provide stronger evidence (Q ~ 10^-7-10^-4) for the line. Such a shift in the cyclotron line energy of an accretion-powered pulsar is unprecedented.

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