XTE Proposal #20102--"SS 433's High Energy Spectrum"

Details XTE Proposal #20102--"SS 433's High Energy Spectrum" XTE Proposal #20102--"SS 433's High Energy Spectrum"

Sep 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999stin...9905713b&link_type=abstract

Technical Report, Los Alamos National Lab. NM United States

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Visual Observation, X Ray Astronomy, X Ray Binaries, X Ray Sources, X Ray Timing Explorer, Millimeter Waves, Emission Spectra

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We observed the jet-producing compact binary system SS 433 with RXTE during three multiwavelength campaigns, the first in conjunction with ASCA observations, the second simultaneous with a VLA-VLBA-MERLIN campaign, and the third associated with a Nobeyama millimeter-band campaign. All these campaigns included optical observations. Occurring at different jet precession and binary phases, the observations also monitored the system during a radio flare. The data provide SS 433's X-ray spectrum over more than an energy decade, and track the spectral variations as the X-ray source was partially eclipsed. The continuum can be modeled as a power law with an exponential cutoff, which can be detected to approximately 50 keV. Strong line emission is evident in the 5-10 keV range which can be modeled as a broad line whose energy is precession independent and a narrow line whose energy does vary with jet precession phase; this line model is clearly an over simplification since the PCA does not have sufficient energy resolution to detect the lines ASCA observed. The eclipses are deeper at high energy and at jet precession phases when the jets are more inclined towards and away from us. A large radio flare occurred between two sets of X-ray monitoring observations; an X-ray observation at the peak of the flare found a softer spectrum with a flux approximately 1/3 that of the quiescent level.

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