SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 300001
SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 300001
Title: X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY OF THE SOFT INTERMEDIATE POLAR RE0751+14
Observer: PREDEHL
Subject Category: WD Binaries and CVs
Seq: 300001 ObsId: 00076
Long-term Plan bin: 3-Apr-2000
ABSTRACT
RE0751+14 is the brightest of a new class of intermediate polars discovered by ROSAT. Its soft X-ray spectrum is dominated by a blackbody-like component with a temperature of about 50 eV, reminiscent of that seen in the strongly magnetic polars. In analogy the soft component probably originates from an accretion-heated surface region around the white dwarfs magnetic pole(s). We propose to do high resolution X-ray spectroscopy of RE0751+14 to investigate in detail the soft spectral component. Resolving spectral features will provide very valuable information on the emission mechanism and the white dwarf atmosphere. It will be vital to find the physical parameters which rule the production of the soft X-ray component in soft intermediate polars.
TARGET SUMMARY
| TARGET NAME |
RA | DEC |
TIME |
SI |
GRAT |
TYPE |
TC |
ROLL |
PRE |
PHASE |
MULTI |
PRI |
| RE 0751+14 |
117.822083 | 14.739722 |
50.00000 |
HRC-S |
LETG |
GTO |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
5 |
IMAGES
(NOTE: RASS images currently only available for targets LTS scheduled on or after Apr-09-2000)
PARAMETERS
Obscat Parameters
