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Rapid Hard X-Ray Variability in GRO J0422+32

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

F. van der Hooft
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J. van Paradijs
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
M. Van Der Klis
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
C. Kouveliotou
Affiliation:
USRA and NASA/MSFC, USA
D.J. Crary
Affiliation:
USRA and NASA/MSFC, USA
M.H. Finger
Affiliation:
USRA and NASA/MSFC, USA
B.C. Rubin
Affiliation:
RIKEN Institute, Japan
B.A. Harmon
Affiliation:
NASA/MSFC, USA
G.J. Fishman
Affiliation:
NASA/MSFC, USA
W.H.G. Lewin
Affiliation:
MIT, USA

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The soft X-ray transient (SXT) GRO J0422+32 (Nova Persei 1992) was detected with the Burst And Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) on board the CGRO on 1992 August 5 (Paciesas et al. 1992) (Truncated Julian Day [TJD] 8839). The source intensity of GRO J0422+32 increased rapidly, reaching a flux of ~ 3 Crab (40-230 keV) within days after its first detection (Harmon et al. 1992). Hereafter, the X-ray intensity of the source decreased exponentially with a decay time of ~ 43 days (Vikhlinin et al. 1995). A secondary maximum of the X-ray intensity was reached at TJD 8978, 139 days after the first detection of the source. The daily averaged flux history of GRO J0422+32 in the 40-150 keV energy band is presented in Figure 1.

Type
Session 3: Diagnostics of High Gravity Objects with X- and Gamma Rays
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

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