297 research outputs found
Results of a Sounding Rocket experiment to study celestial X-ray sources Final report
Sounding rocket experiment to study celestial X-ray source
A program of X-ray astronomy from sounding rocket Final report
X-ray astronomy from sounding rocket
Analysis of sounding rocket data regarding celestial X-ray sources Final report
Celestial observation, sounding rocket data, and emission spectrum used to identify Sco X-1 of Scorpio constellatio
A continuation of a program of high angular resolution studies of celestial X-ray sources Final report, 19 Feb. - 1 Aug. 1968
Refurbishment and reflight of instrumented payload on Aerobee rocket for X ray astronomy progra
A program of high angular resolution studies of celestial X-ray sources
Aerobee rocket experiment for detecting X-ray sources in Cygnus constellation - stellar radiatio
Bose-Einstein condensation in the presence of a uniform field and a point-like impurity
The behavior of an ideal -dimensional boson gas in the presence of a
uniform gravitational field is analyzed. It is explicitly shown that,
contrarily to an old standing folklore, the three-dimensional gas does not
undergo Bose-Einstein condensation at finite temperature. On the other hand,
Bose-Einstein condensation occurs at for if there is a
point-like impurity at the bottom of the vessel containing the gas.Comment: 14 pages, REVTEX. Revised version, accepted for publication in Phys.
Rev.
The (un)resolved X-ray background in the Lockman Hole
Most of the soft and a growing fraction of the harder X-ray background has
been resolved into emission from point sources, yet the resolved fraction above
7 keV has only been poorly constrained. We use ~700 ks of XMM-Newton
observations of the Lockman Hole and a photometric approach to estimate the
total flux attributable to resolved sources in a number of different energy
bands. We find the resolved fraction of the X-ray background to be ~90 per cent
below 2 keV but it decreases rapidly at higher energies with the resolved
fraction above ~7 keV being only ~50 per cent. The integrated X-ray spectrum
from detected sources has a slope of Gamma~1.75, much softer than the Gamma=1.4
of the total background spectrum. The unresolved background component has the
spectral signature of highly obscured AGN.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, MNRAS Letters, in press, changed to reflect
accepted versio
The quantum Hall effect in graphene samples and the relativistic Dirac effective action
We study the Euclidean effective action per unit area and the charge density
for a Dirac field in a two--dimensional spatial region, in the presence of a
uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the 2D--plane, at finite temperature
and density. In the limit of zero temperature we reproduce, after performing an
adequate Lorentz boost, the Hall conductivity measured for different kinds of
graphene samples, depending upon the phase choice in the fermionic determinant.Comment: Conclusions extended. References added. 9 pages. 1 figur
On the ultra-compact nature of 4U1822-000
We report the discovery of a periodic modulation in the optical lightcurve of
the candidate ultra-compact X-ray binary 4U1822-000. Using time-resolved
optical photometry taken with the William Herschel Telescope we find evidence
for a sinusoidal modulation with a semi-amplitude of 8 percent and a period of
191 min, which is most likely close to the true orbital period of the binary.
Using the van Paradijs & McClintock relation for the absolute magnitude and the
distance modulus allowing for interstellar reddening, we estimate the distance
to 4U1822-000 to be 6.3 kpc. The long orbital period and casts severe doubts on
the ultra-compact nature of 4U1822-000.Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure, accepted by MNRA
X-ray and Optical Study of Low Core Density Globular Clusters NGC6144 and E3
We report on the Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope
observation of two low core density globular clusters, NGC6144 and E3. By
comparing the number of X-ray sources inside the half-mass radius to those
outside, we found 6 X-ray sources within the half-mass radius of NGC6144, among
which 4 are expected to be background sources; 3 X-ray sources are also found
within the half-mass radius of E3, of which 3 is expected to be background
source. Therefore, we cannot exclude that all our sources are background
sources. However, combining the results from X-ray and optical observations, we
found that 1-2 sources in NGC6144 and 1 source in E3 are likely to be
cataclysmic variables and that 1 source in NGC6144 is an active binary, based
on the X-ray and optical properties. The number of faint X-ray sources in
NGC6144 and E3 found with Chandra and HST is higher than a prediction based on
collision frequency, but is closer to that based on mass. Our observations
strongly suggest that the compact binary systems in NGC6144 and E3 are
primordial in origin.Comment: 28 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables, Accepted for publication in Ap
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