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Temperature measurement during thermonuclear X-ray bursts with BeppoSAX

dc.contributor.authorBeri, Aru
dc.contributor.authorPaul, Biswajit
dc.contributor.authorOrlandini, Mauro
dc.contributor.authorMaitra, Chandreyee
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-22T12:10:56Z
dc.date.available2016-09-22T12:10:56Z
dc.date.issued2016-05
dc.descriptionRestricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)en_US
dc.description.abstractWe have carried out a study of temperature evolution during thermonuclear bursts in LMXBs using broad band data from two instruments onboard BeppoSAX, the MECS and the PDS. However, instead of applying the standard technique of time resolved spectroscopy, we have determined the temperature in small time intervals using the ratio of count rates in the two instruments assuming a blackbody nature of burst emission and different interstellar absorption for different sources. Data from a total of twelve observations of six sources were analyzed during which 22 bursts were detected. We have obtained temperatures as high as ∼3.0 keV, even when there is no evidence of photospheric radius expansion. These high temperatures were observed in the sources within different broadband spectral states (soft and hard).en_US
dc.identifier.citationNew Astronomy, 2016, Vol. 45, p48-53en_US
dc.identifier.issn1384-1076
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2289/6401
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElesvier B.V.en_US
dc.relation.urihttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs//2016NewA...45...48Ben_US
dc.relation.urihttp://arxiv.org/abs//1510.04848en_US
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.newast.2015.10.013en_US
dc.rights2015 Elesvier B.V.en_US
dc.titleTemperature measurement during thermonuclear X-ray bursts with BeppoSAXen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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