The early X-ray emission from V382 Velorum (=Nova Vel 1999): An internal shock model

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2001-01-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0101026v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages (including 4 figures), accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/320220

We present the results of ASCA and RXTE observations of the early X-ray emission from the classical nova V382 Velorum. Its ASCA spectrum was hard (kT~10 keV) with a strong (10**23 cm**-2) intrinsic absorption. In the subsequent RXTE data, the spectra became softer both due to a declining temperature and a diminishing column. We argue that this places the X-ray emission interior to the outermost ejecta produced by V382 Vel in 1999, and therefore must have been the result of a shock internal to the nova ejecta. The weakness of the Fe K alpha lines probably indicates that the X-ray emitting plasmas are not in ionization equilibrium.

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