Diagnostics of SS433 with the RXTE

Details Diagnostics of SS433 with the RXTE Diagnostics of SS433 with the RXTE

2006-07-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607188v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Published in Proceedings of the 13th Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, held in Kyiv, Ukraine, April

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We present analysis of extensive monitoring of SS433 by the RXTE observatory collected over the period 1996-2005. The difference between energy spectra taken at different precessional and orbital phases shows the presence of a strong photoabsorption near the optical star, probably due to its powerful dense wind. Assuming that a precessing accretion disk is thick, we recover the temperature profile in the X-ray emitting jet that best fits the observed precessional variations of the X-ray emission temperature. The hottest visible part of the X-ray jet is located at a distance of $l_0/a\sim0.06-0.09$, or $\sim2-3\times10^{11}$cm from the central compact object and has a temperature of about $T_{\rm max}\sim30$ keV. We discovered appreciable orbital X-ray eclipses at the ``crossover'' precessional phases (jets are in the plane of the sky, disk is edge-on) which put a lower limit on the size of the optical component $R/a\ga0.5$ and an upper limit on a mass ratio of binary companions $q=M_{\rm x}/M_{\rm opt}\la0.3-0.35$. The size of the eclipsing region can be larger than secondary's Roche lobe because of substantial photoabsorption by dense stellar wind. This must be taken into account when evaluating the mass ratio from analysis of X-ray eclipses.

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