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NuSTAR Discovery of a Cyclotron Line in the Be/X-Ray Binary RX J0520.5–6932 during Outburst

  • Authors: Shriharsh P. Tendulkar, Felix Fürst, Katja Pottschmidt, Matteo Bachetti, Varun B. Bhalerao, Steven E. Boggs, Finn E. Christensen, William W. Craig, Charles A. Hailey, Fiona A. Harrison, Daniel Stern, John A. Tomsick, Dominic J. Walton, and William Zhang

Tendulkar et al. 2014 The Astrophysical Journal 795 154.

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Caption: Figure 2.

Top: NuSTAR spectra from both observations. The colors correspond to the following data sets: black: Obs I FPMA, red: Obs I FPMB, green: Obs II FPMA, and blue: Obs II FPMB. Second panel: ratio of the continuum-only model—const*tbabs*cflux*(powerlaw*fdcut)—to the data. The Fe emission line at 6.5 keV and the CRSF at ≈30 keV are clearly visible. Third Panel: ratio of the full model—const*tbabs*cflux* (powerlaw*fdcut*gabs+gauss)—fit to the data plotted with the absorption and emission line strength set to zero. The continuum is accurately fit by the power law with an exponential cutoff. Bottom panel: ratio of the full model—const*tbabs*cflux*(powerlaw*fdcut*gabs+gauss)—to the data.

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