arXiv 2107.033282021-07-07astro-ph.HEastro-ph.SR

An Analysis of X-Ray Hardness Ratios Between Asynchronous and Non-Asynchronous Polars

Eric Masington, Thomas J. Maccarone, Liliana Rivera Sandoval, Craig Heinke, Arash Bahramian, Aarran Shaw

备注：: 3 pages, 1 figure, accepted to the Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers

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The subclass of magnetic Cataclysmic Variables (CV), known as asynchronous polars, are still relatively poorly understood. An asynchronous polar is a polar in which the spin period of the white dwarf is either shorter or longer than the binary orbital period (typically within a few percent). The asynchronous polars have been disproportionately detected in soft gamma-ray observations, leading us to consider the possibility that they have intrinsically harder X-ray spectra. We compared standard and asynchronous polars in order to examine the relationship between a CV's synchronization status and its spectral shape. Using the entire sample of asynchronous polars, we find that the asynchronous polars may, indeed, have harder spectra, but that the result is not statistically significant.

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