THE PHOTOIONIZED ACCRETION DISK IN HER X-1

We present an analysis of several high-resolution Chandra grating observations of the X-ray binary pulsar Her X-1. With a total exposure of 170 ks, the observations are separated by years and cover three combinations of orbital and superorbital phases. Our goal is to determine distinct properties of...

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Main Authors: Ji, Li, Schulz, Norbert S., Nowak, Michael A., Kallman, T. R., Marshall, Herman
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96211