On some features of free precession of a triaxial body: the case of Her X-1

Details On some features of free precession of a triaxial body: the case of Her X-1 On some features of free precession of a triaxial body: the case of Her X-1

1998-01-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9801033v2

ApJ vol. 494

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages with 5 eps figures, l-aa.sty+epsf.sty, Astron. Astrophys. in press, replaced with a revised version with typos correct

Scientific paper

We show that the free precession of a triaxial body can naturally explain the
anomalously rapid change of the X-ray pulse profile of Her X-1 observed by the
HEAO-1 in September 1978 without requiring a large change in the moment of
inertia.

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