Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-03-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, Latex, with 19 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20020347
We report the identification of the ROSAT all-sky survey source 1RXS J154814.5-452845as new intermediate polar and present the results from follow-up optical and X-ray observations. The source shows pulsations with a period of 693 s both in the optical and X-ray light curves and the detection of a synodic frequency strongly suggests that this is the rotation period of the white dwarf. Although the one day aliasing and the sparse optical data coverage does not allow to unambiguously identify the orbital period, the most likely values of 9.37 h and 6.72 h add 1RXS J154814.5-452845 to the intermediate polars with the longest orbital periods known. The optical spectrum displays features from the late type secondary and shows the presence of broad absorption lines at \Hbet and higher order Balmer lines which may be a signature of the white dwarf atmosphere, very similar to V 709 Cas. The average X-ray spectra as obtained by the EPIC instruments on board XMM-Newton show hard emission typical for this class of objects but also the presence of soft blackbody-like emission similar to that seen from soft intermediate polars and thought to arise from the white dwarf surface heated by the hard X-rays. The best fit model comprises thermal emission from multi-temperature plasma in collisional ionization equilibrium with a continuous temperature distribution up to a maximum of $\sim$60 keV, an Fe fluorescence line at 6.4 keV and with equivalent width of 260 eV and a blackbody component with kT of 86 eV. The hard X-ray emission is absorbed by matter covering 47% of the X-ray source with an equivalent hydrogen density of $\sim$\ohcm{23}. The remaining hard emission is absorbed by a much reduced column density of 1.5\hcm{21} as is the soft blackbody emission. (truncated)
Haberl Franck
Motch Ch.
Zickgraf Franz-Josef
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