XMM-Newton observations of the eclipsing polar EP Dra

Details XMM-Newton observations of the eclipsing polar EP Dra XMM-Newton observations of the eclipsing polar EP Dra

2004-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0407523v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication MNRAS, 6 pages

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08239.x

We present XMM-Newton observations of the eclipsing polar EP Dra which cover nearly 3 binary orbital cycles. The X-ray and UV data show evidence for a prominent dip before the eclipse which is due to the accretion stream obscuring the accretion region. The dip ingress is rapid in hard X-rays suggesting there is a highly collimated core of absorption. We find that a different level of absorption column density is required to match the observed count rates in different energy bands. We propose that this is due to the fact that different absorption components should be used to model the reprocessed X-rays, the shocked X-ray component and the UV emission and explore the affect that this has on the resulting fits to the spectrum. Further, there is evidence that absorption starts to obscure the softer X-rays shortly after the onset of the bright phase. This suggests that material is threaded by an unusually wide range of magnetic field lines, consistent with the suggestion of Bridge et al. We find that the period is slightly greater than that determined by Schwope & Mengel.

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