Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-09-28
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 359 (2005) 629-636
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 6 figures, submitted for publication in MNRAS (April, 2004)
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08927.x
Apart from regular monitoring by ASM, the compact object SS 433 was observed with RXTE several times last two/three years. We present the first analysis of these observations. We also include the results of the recent exciting TOO campaign made during donour inferior (orbital phase $\phi=0$) and superior ($\phi=0.5$) conjunctions which took place on Oct. 2nd, 2003, and on March 13th, 2004 respectively, when the jet itself was directly pointing towards us (i.e., precessional phase $\psi \sim 0$). Generally, we found that two distinct lines fit the spectra taken on all these days. We present some of the light-curves and the X-ray spectra, and show that the Doppler shifts of the emitted lines roughly match those predicted by the kinematic model for the jets. We find that the line with a higher energy can be best identified with a FeXXVI Ly-$\alpha$ transition while the line with lower energy can be identified with a FeXXV (1s2p - 1s$^2$) transition. We observe that the X-ray flux on March 13th, 2004 (when the base of the jet is exposed) is more than twice compared to that on Oct. 2nd, 2003 (when the base is covered by the companion). We find the flux to continue to remain high at least till another orbital period. We believe that this is because SS 433 was undergoing a weak flaring activity during the recent observation.
Belloni Tomaso
Chakrabarti Sandip K.
Goldoni Paolo
Nandi Amitabha
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