Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Mar 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003head....7.1205h&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #7, #12.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 35, p.617
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Scientific paper
Chandra HETG observations of the bright eclipsing contact binary 44i Boo and Chandra LETG observations for the eclipsing binary VW Cep show X-ray line profiles that are Doppler-shifted by orbital motion. After careful analysis of the spectrum of each binary, a composite line-profile is constructed by adding the individual spectral lines. This high signal-to-noise ratio composite line-profile yields orbital velocities for these binaries that are accurate to 30 km/sec and allows their orbital motion to be studied at higher time resolutions. In conjunction with X-ray lightcurves, the phase-binned composite line-profiles constrain coronal structures to be small and located at high latitudes.
These observations and techniques show the power of the Doppler Imaging Technique applied to X-ray line emission. Differences in localization of the X-ray and far UV emission are also discussed.
This work is supported in part by NASA grant GO2-3018X to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. N. S. Brickhouse acknowledges the support of the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center (NAS8-39073).
Brickhouse Nancy S.
Dupree Andrea K.
Hoogerwerf Ronnie
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