Rapid, low-level X-ray variability in active late-type dwarfs

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol W. Ambruster ◽  
Salvatore Sciortino ◽  
L. Golub
Keyword(s):  
X Ray ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 512 (2) ◽  
pp. 874-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. P. Singh ◽  
S. A. Drake ◽  
E. V. Gotthelf ◽  
N. E. White
Keyword(s):  

2020 ◽  
Vol 501 (1) ◽  
pp. 1453-1462
Author(s):  
A S Parikh ◽  
N Degenaar ◽  
J V Hernández Santisteban ◽  
R Wijnands ◽  
I Psaradaki ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT The accretion behaviour in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) at low luminosities, especially at <1034 erg s−1, is not well known. This is an important regime to study to obtain a complete understanding of the accretion process in LMXBs, and to determine if systems that host neutron stars with accretion-heated crusts can be used probe the physics of dense matter (which requires their quiescent thermal emission to be uncontaminated by residual accretion). Here, we examine ultraviolet (UV) and X-ray data obtained when EXO 0748–676, a crust-cooling source, was in quiescence. Our Hubble Space Telescope spectroscopy observations do not detect the far-UV continuum emission, but do reveal one strong emission line, C iv. The line is relatively broad (≳3500 km s−1), which could indicate that it results from an outflow such as a pulsar wind. By studying several epochs of X-ray and near-UV data obtained with XMM–Newton, we find no clear indication that the emission in the two wavebands is connected. Moreover, the luminosity ratio of LX/LUV ≳ 100 is much higher than that observed from neutron star LMXBs that exhibit low-level accretion in quiescence. Taken together, this suggests that the UV and X-ray emission of EXO 0748–676 may have different origins, and that thermal emission from crust-cooling of the neutron star, rather than ongoing low-level accretion, may be dominating the observed quiescent X-ray flux evolution of this LMXB.


1988 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 251-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Hegedüs ◽  
P. Winkler

A special measurement technique has been developed to measure very low level iodine concentrations. The gas and water samples to be analysed are taken from the POSEIDON facility at PSI where retention of iodine in water pools in conjunction with light water reactor safety analysis is under investigation. The amount of iodine was measured by means of a Total Reflectance X-Ray Spectrometer (TXRF).


2004 ◽  
Vol 215 ◽  
pp. 292-293
Author(s):  
Stefano Covino ◽  
Gianpiero Tagliaferri ◽  
José Renan de Medeiros
Keyword(s):  

We present and discuss statistical relation between rotation and X-ray activity for giant and supergiant stars.”


1997 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 427-428
Author(s):  
Y. Zhao ◽  
J. Zhong ◽  
J. Wei ◽  
J. Hu ◽  
Q. Li

AbstractWe used the CCD camera and spectrograph of the 2.16-m telescope of Beijing Astronomical Observatory to identify the ROSAT All-Sky survey sources in two 2° Ü 2° fields. Of a total of 16 X-ray sources, we identified 13 of them as follows: two QSOs, two Seyfert galaxies, two active galaxies, two clusters of galaxies, and five late-type stars. Three X-ray sources remained unidentified.


1989 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Pallavicini ◽  
G. Tagliaferri

AbstractWe present an overview of recent observations of stellar X-ray flares obtained with the EXOSAT Observatory. We discuss a few examples of flares from M dwarf flare stars, from RS CVn and Algol-type binaries, from single late-type stars (including a G0 dwarf and an A-type visual binary), and from pre-main-sequence objects. We also draw some general conclusions from the pieliminary analysis of the EXOSAT data sample.


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