Issue |
A&A
Volume 385, Number 2, April II 2002
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Page(s) | 511 - 516 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20020104 | |
Published online | 15 April 2002 |
The complex X-ray spectrum of the supersoft source
1
Astronomical Institute, Utrecht University, PO Box 80000, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
2
SRON National Institute for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, CA 3584 Utrecht, The Netherlands
3
Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
4
Observatoire Astronomique, UA 1280 CNRS, 11 rue de l'Université, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Corresponding author: H. Bearda, a.h.bearda@astro.uu.nl
Received:
7
November
2001
Accepted:
17
January
2002
We present the X-ray spectrum of / , obtained with the Medium Energy Grating spectrometer of the Chandra X-ray Telescope. The simplest models used by earlier authors, stellar atmospheres in combination with a thermal plasma in collisional ionization equilibrium, cannot explain the spectrum. Neither does a photo-ionized plasma. We identify P Cygni profiles of Fe XVII and O VIII, from which we conclude that these lines arise in a wind. We conclude that major uncertainty exists about the bolometric luminosity of , and perhaps of supersoft sources in general, so that the theoretical prediction that this luminosity derives from steady nuclear burning cannot be verified.
Key words: stars: atmospheres / binaries: close / line: identification / stars: individual: / stars: winds, outflows / X-rays: binaries
© ESO, 2002
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