Physics – Nuclear Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004nuphs.132..660s&link_type=abstract
Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements, Volume 132, p. 660-663.
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Scientific paper
We report on the results of a new BeppoSAX (0.12-200 keV) observation of the peculiar X-ray binary source Circinus X-1 (Cir X-1) near the apastron. We produced a color-color diagram and selected seven different zones. We fitted the spectra obtained from each zone using a model consisting of a blackbody component, at a temperature of ~0.5 keV, and a Comptonized component, with a seed-photon temperature of ~1 keV, electron temperature of ~2.7 keV and optical depth of ~11. A soft excess between 0.6 keV and 0.9 keV is present in four out of the seven extracted spectra. To fit the soft excess we tried several continuum emission models, and we find good results only adding a further blackbody component absorbed by a different equivalent hydrogen column, an order of magnitude lower than the absorption of the other two components; its physical interpretation is however hard to address.
Burderi Luciano
di Salvo Tiziana
Frontera Filippo
Iaria Rosario
Robba Natale Renato
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