Pulse phase resolved spectroscopy of Vela X-1 with Suzaku

Maitra, Chandreyee; Paul, Biswajit

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dc.contributor.author	Maitra, Chandreyee	-
dc.contributor.author	Paul, Biswajit	-
dc.date.accessioned	2013-04-09T06:28:38Z	-
dc.date.available	2013-04-09T06:28:38Z	-
dc.date.issued	2013-02-01	-
dc.identifier.citation	The Astrophysical journal, 2013, Vol.763, p79	en
dc.identifier.issn	0004-637X	-
dc.identifier.issn	1538-4357-(Online)	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/5535	-
dc.description	Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations). The article will be made open-access at the journal site after 24 months.	en
dc.description.abstract	We present a detailed pulse-phase-resolved spectral analysis of the persistent high-mass X-ray binary pulsar Vela X-1 observed with Suzaku during 2008 June. The pulse profiles exhibit both intensity and energy dependence with multiple peaks at low energies and double peaks at higher energies. The source shows some spectral evolution over the duration of the observation and care has been taken to average over data with minimum spectral variability for the analysis. We model the continuum with a phenomenological partial covering high-energy cutoff model and a more physical partial covering thermal Comptonization model (CompTT) excluding the time ranges having variable hardness ratio and intensity dependence. For both the models, we detect a cyclotron resonant scattering feature (CRSF) and its harmonic at ~25 keV and ~50 keV. Both the CRSF fundamental and harmonics parameters are strongly variable over the pulse phase, with the ratio of the two line energies deviating from the classical value of 2. The continuum parameters also show significant variation over the pulse phase and give us some idea about the changing physical conditions that are seen with the changing viewing angle at different pulse phases and obscuration by the accretion stream at some pulse phases.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	IOP Sciences for The American Astronomical Society.	en
dc.relation.uri	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ...763...79M	en
dc.relation.uri	http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1538	en
dc.relation.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/763/2/79	en
dc.rights	2013 American Astronomical Society	en
dc.subject	Pulsars	en
dc.subject	X-ray binaries	en
dc.subject	X-ray	en
dc.title	Pulse phase resolved spectroscopy of Vela X-1 with Suzaku	en
dc.type	Article	en
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