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1998A&A...340L..19O - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 340L19-22 (1998/12-2)

The extraordinary X-ray spectrum of XTE J0421+560.

ORR A., PARMAR A.N., ORLANDINI M., FRONTERA F., DAL FIUME D., SEGRETO A., SANTANGELO A. and TAVANI M.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report results of two BeppoSAX observations of the transient X-ray source XTEJ0421+560 during the outburst that started in March 1998. The source exhibits radio jets and coincides with the binary system CI Cam. The 0.1-50keV spectrum is unlike those of other X-ray transients, and cannot be fit with any simple model. The spectra can be represented by an absorbed two component bremsstrahlung model with narrow Gaussian emission features identified with O, Ne/Fe-L, Si, S, Ca and Fe-K. During the second observation (TOO2) the energies of the O and the Ne/Fe-L features decreased smoothly by ∼9% over an interval of 30 hrs. No significant energy shift of the other lines is detected with e.g, a 90% confidence upper limit to any Fe-K line shift of 3.5%. No moving lines were detected during the first observation (TOO1) with e.g., an upper limit of <1.4% to any shift of the Fe-K line. The low-energy absorption decreased by a factor ≥1.8 from ∼6x1021atom/cm2 between TOO1 and TOO2. We propose that the time variable emission lines arise in precessing relativistic jets, while the stationary lines originate in circumstellar material.

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Journal keyword(s): stars: binaries - stars: emission-line, Be - stars: individual (XTE J0421+560) - stars: novae - X-rays: stars

Simbad objects: 2

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