Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995aas...187.2601r&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 187th AAS Meeting, #26.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 27, p.1323
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
For 37 disk-accreting CVs observed with the ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter, we determine X-ray spectral parameters and the orbital dependence thereof. The raw data are fit with an optically thin, thermal Bremsstrahlung model plus absorption. We obtain average values for the temperature of kT ~ 2.4 keV and column densities of N_H 5*E(20) cm(-2) . Estimated 0.1-2.4 keV fluxes are in the range log F_x = -13.5 to -11 erg cm(-2) s(-1) . Systematic excesses in the residuals of the fitted spectra near E=0.2 and 0.8 keV suggest that the X-ray emission in CVs is not well described by this single temperature model. Changes in softness ratio as a function of orbital phase are seen in 17 of the 37 CVs. Our results typically exhibit a decrease in the 0.1-0.4 keV flux near orbital phases phi =0.1 and phi =0.5. Variability in spectral hardness on several time scales is seen in three systems. We address the problem of understanding the observed 0.1-2.4 keV emission. We show that the ratio of X-ray flux to visual flux correlates with accretion rate, absolute visual magnitude and equivalent width of the Hβ emission line. The results are consistent with the X-rays originating in the boundary layer between the accretion disk and the white dwarf. A coronal contribution from the companion to the X-ray luminosity is rejected because the luminosities found are above the saturation boundary in L_x determined for late-type main sequence stars.
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