Part 1: Development of the energetic X-ray imaging telescope experiment; and, Part 2: Studies of low-mass X-ray binaries

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Aug 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987phdt.........3g&link_type=abstract

Ph.D. Thesis Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA.

Computer Science

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Equipment Specifications, Performance Tests, Telescopes, X Ray Astronomy, X Ray Binaries, X Ray Imagery, Exosat Satellite, Infrared Spectra, Radio Emission, Stellar Luminosity, Very Large Array (Vla), X Ray Spectra

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The design, development and testing of the Energetic X-ray Imaging Telescope Experiment (EXITE) are described. EXITE should have sensitivity sufficient to perform many important observations of the high energy X-ray emission of galactic and extra-galactic sources. The combination of moderately large effective area, coded aperture imaging, and improved energy resolution should allow some of the most accurate measurements of high energy X-ray spectra to date. The results of a survery of the temporal and spectral variations of approximately 40 low mass X-ray binaries (LMXRBs) observed with the Einstein MPC are reported. A variety of methods were used to search for correlations among measured spectral and temporal parameters with the following results: as was found in previous studies, the spectra of many LMXRB harden with increasing flux; most X-ray luminous LMXRB often have hardness ratios which are bi-valued with luminosity, in contrast with the less luminous source; and a few of the more interesting sources were followed up at X-ray, radio, optical, and infrared wavelengths.

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