タイトル | Simultaneous U, B, V, and X-ray measurements of a burst from 4U/MXB 1636-53 |
著者(英) | Cominsky, L.; Lawrence, A.; Jernigan, G.; Engelke, C.; Pedersen, H.; Mitsuda, K.; Ohashi, T.; Lewin, W. H. G.; Matsuoka, M.; Oda, M. |
著者所属(英) | European Southern Observatory|Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.|Tokyo Univ. |
発行日 | 1983-08-15 |
言語 | eng |
内容記述 | Data are presented on the first simultaneous X-ray and optical burst to be measured in more than one optical color. Various analyses agree that, to a first approximation, the optical burst is produced through blackbody reprocessing of the X-ray burst, with a short delay. Depending on the technique used, the value of the delay is 2 or 3 s. The smearing of the optical signal is determined to be less than 3 s. The temperature of the optical reprocessor ranges from approximately 25,000 K at quiescence to approximately 50,000 K at burst maximum. An extinction toward the source is derived from the color-color diagram, suggesting a distance greater than or approximately equal to 2 kpc. The projected effective area of the blackbody reprocessor is approximately 5 x 10 to the 21st (D/5 kpc)-squared sq cm. The fraction of the total X-ray burst energy converted into optical energy at all wavelengths is, within an order of magnitude, approximately 3 percent. These parameters are discussed in relation to the 4 hr orbital periodicity in the system reported by Pedersen et al. (1981). |
NASA分類 | ASTRONOMY |
レポートNO | 83A43071 |
権利 | Copyright |
URI | https://repository.exst.jaxa.jp/dspace/handle/a-is/402856 |
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