SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 400071
SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 400071
Title: HIGH RESOLUTION X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY OF COMPACT BINARIES
Observer: VRTILEK
Subject Category: BH and NS Binaries
Seq: 400071 ObsId: 00704
Long-term Plan bin: 5-Jun-2000
ABSTRACT
We propose to undertake a survey of Galactic X-ray binaries with the ACIS-S+HETG. Owing to their proximity and brightness, X-ray binaries provide otherwise unobtainable insight into the accretion process. We will: investigate the physical conditions of the emitting gas using emission and recombination line diagnostics to determine temperatures, densities, elemental abundances, and ionization structure; test and improve models of X-ray line emission developed by us over the past decade; and generate an atlas of spectra for use in comparative studies of X-ray binaries. Insights gained from this work will be applicable to irradiated, accreting plasmas which are present in regions of star formation, interacting main-sequence binaries, active galactic nuclei and quasars.
TARGET SUMMARY
| TARGET NAME |
RA | DEC |
TIME |
SI |
GRAT |
TYPE |
TC |
ROLL |
PRE |
PHASE |
MULTI |
PRI |
| 4U 1735-44 |
264.742750 | -44.450036 |
25.00000 |
ACIS-S |
HETG |
GO |
no |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
5 |
IMAGES
(NOTE: RASS images currently only available for targets LTS scheduled on or after Apr-09-2000)
PARAMETERS
Obscat Parameters
