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Nov 2002
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X-ray Binaries in the Chandra and XMM-Newton Era (with an emphasis on Targets of Opportunity), Abstracts of the conference held
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High Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy, Plasma Diagnostics
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Strong iron K lines observed from Centaurus X-3 (Cen~X-3) are considered to come from a re-processing matter around the neutron star, e.g. the Alfv'en shell. Thus the X-rays in the energy band containing the iron K lines ("iron-band") is expected to have a certain delay from the higher energy X-rays.
We discovered the significant time delay of temporal variation of "iron-band" as compared with that of the other continuum X-rays by (6.0 ± 2.4)~ms, (4.0 ± 3.8)~ms, and (10.1 ± 4.9)~ms, Appling cross spectrum to all archival RXTE data of Cen~X-3. These results lead to a determination of (1.8 ± 0.7) x 108 cm, (1.2 ± 1.1) x 108 cm, and (3.0 ± 1.7) x 108 cm for the distance between the original X-ray source, neutron star, and the reprocessor, which emits the iron lines.
From most of observation data, we also discovered the time difference showed a general trend such that the higher energy X-rays advanced in comparison with the lower energy X-rays. If this advance is originate at the X-ray emission region around the neutron star polar cap, the inverse Compton scattering is not the main process of the continuum X-ray emission.
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