X-ray energy spectra of CAL87

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Feb 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010an....331..152e&link_type=abstract

Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.331, Issue 2, p.152

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We present X-ray spectral analysis of the super-soft source CAL87 using ASCA, Chandra, XMM-Newton observations. Early ASCA CCD spectrum reported a strong oxygen absorption edge, which is considered to originate in the an optically thick white-dwarf atmosphere. On the other hand, contemporaneous grating observations by Chandra and XMM-Newton indicate emission line dominated spectra, which obviously indicate the optically thin origin. Fitting all the available CCD (ASCA and XMM-Newton) and grating spectra (XMM-Newton and Chandra) simultaneously, we show that the CAL87 X-ray energy spectrum is in fact composed of both an optically thick component with deep absorption edges and an optically thin component with numerous emission lines. The current result supports the standard SSS model that the primary source of X-ray emission is nuclear burning in the white dwarf atmosphere, surrounded by a highly photoionised, optically thin corona.

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