Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Apr 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001stin...0144080w&link_type=abstract
Technical Report, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Cambridge, MA United States
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Variable Stars, X Ray Astronomy, Frequency Measurement, X Ray Timing Explorer, Proportional Counters
Scientific paper
S5 0716+714 was observed with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) between 6 and 22 April 1996 as part of a multifrequency monitoring campaign for this source observed to show extreme intra-day variability (IDV) at a number of frequencies. There were 24 distinct epochs of observation ('views') with the RXTE Proportional Counter Array (PCA), each lasting on average 3-4 ks. There were a number of technical problems with the data. During view 10 no Proportional Counter Unit (PCU) was on. A gain change (from gain epoch 2 to gain epoch 3) took place during view 11, on 15 April 1996. No data were received for view 18. Views 10, 11 and 18 have been omitted from our analysis. There were two distinct pointings of the telescope in views 4 and 17 (all the other observations have only one pointing), and in many of the pointings the data are broken by periods where the high voltage was turned off during South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) passages and Earth occultations. Originally no filter file was available for views 21 and 22, and for the second pointing of view 17, because housekeeping data were missing, but these data were supplied when the observations were reprocessed in early 1998. For most of the remaining observations only three PCUs were on; the exceptions are views 23, 24 (four PCUs) and 17, 19, 20, 21 and 22 (five PCUs). All working PCUs have been analyzed. The third part of the first pointing of view 17 was found to be very short and is discarded from our analysis. The second part of observation 2 is pointed far off-axis and is discarded.
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