Fig. 2

Light curves and hardness ratio of Vela X-1 (Chandra ObsID 1928) in the 0.5–3 keV and 3–10 keV energy bands, binned to ~283 s. The hardness is defined as the quotient of the count rates in the 3–10 keV and 0.5–3 keV bands. Gray shaded areas indicate the time periods used to extract the high-hardness spectrum, and unshaded regions are used for the low-hardness spectrum.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.