The spin pulse of the intermediate polar V1062 Tauri

¹ Astrophysics Group, School of Chemistry and Physics, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK
² Laboratory for High Energy Physics, NASA/GSFC, Code 662, Greenbelt, MD 20771, and Universities Space Research Association, USA

Corresponding author: C. Hellier, ch@astro.keele.ac.uk

Received: 18 February 2002
Accepted: 22 April 2002

Abstract

We combine ASCA and RXTE data of V1062 Tau to confirm the presence of a 62-min X-ray pulsation. We show that the pulsation is caused largely by the variation of dense partial absorption, in keeping with current models of accretion onto magnetic white dwarfs. Further parametrisation of the spin pulse is, however, hampered by ambiguities in the models.