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吸积中子星GX 13+1时间模EPIC-pn谱的率相关修正检验

Testing Rate Dependent corrections on timing mode EPIC-pn spectra of the accreting Neutron Star GX 13+1

F. Pintore, A. Sanna, T. di Salvo, M. Guainazzi, A. D'Aì, A. Riggio, L. Burderi, R. Iaria, N. R. Robba

摘要:

当XMM-Newton上的EPIC-pn仪器在定时模式下运行时,亮光源的高计数率(>100 cts/s)可能会影响能量标度的校准,从而导致实际光谱形状的修改。与这种效应有关的修正在光谱性质的研究中是非常重要的。这些校准的测试更适合于光谱具有大量离散特征的源。因此,在这项工作中,我们进行了吸积中子星GX 13+1,这是一个倾斜的源,它的光谱中有几个窄的吸收线和一个宽的发射线的光谱分析。我们对在定时模式下进行的XMM-牛顿EPIC-pn观测测试了两种不同的校正方法:标准的速率相关CTI(RDCTI或epfast)和新的速率相关脉冲高度幅度(RDPHA)校正。我们发现,在一般情况下,这两个修正轻微影响的整体宽带连续的属性,而暗示的差异,在广泛的发射线光谱形状。另一方面,它们对吸收线的质心能量非常重要。特别是,RDPHA校正比RDCTI校正提供了对这些特征的光谱特性的更好的估计。事实上,应用前一种方法,在数据中观察到的离散特征在物理上与其他钱德拉和XMM-牛顿观测GX 13+1中已经发现的特征更加一致。

英文摘要:

When the EPIC-pn instrument on board XMM-Newton is operated in Timing mode, high count rates (>100 cts/s) of bright sources may affect the calibration of the energy scale, resulting in a modification of the real spectral shape. The corrections related to this effect are then strongly important in the study of the spectral properties. Tests of these calibrations are more suitable in sources which spectra are characterised by a large number of discrete features. Therefore, in this work, we carried out a spectral analysis of the accreting Neutron Star GX 13+1, which is a dipping source with several narrow absorption lines and a broad emission line in its spectrum. We tested two different correction approaches on an XMM-Newton EPIC-pn observation taken in Timing mode: the standard Rate Dependent CTI (RDCTI or epfast) and the new, Rate Dependent Pulse Height Amplitude (RDPHA) corrections. We found that, in general, the two corrections marginally affect the properties of the overall broadband continuum, while hints of differences in the broad emission line spectral shape are seen. On the other hand, they are dramatically important for the centroid energy of the absorption lines. In particular, the RDPHA corrections provide a better estimate of the spectral properties of these features than the RDCTI corrections. Indeed the discrete features observed in the data, applying the former method, are physically more consistent with those already found in other Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of GX 13+1.

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