A technique for narrowband time series photometry: The X-ray star V2116 Ophiuchi

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作者
Deutsch, EW
Margon, B
Bland-Hawthorn, J
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[1] Univ Washington, Dept Astron, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[2] Anglo Australian Observ, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia
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10.1086/316217
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P1 [天文学];
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We have used innovative features of the Taurus Tunable Filter instrument on the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope to obtain nearly continuous, high-throughput, linear photometry of V2116 Oph in a 7 Angstrom bandpass at the center of the O I lambda 8446 emission line. This instrumental technique shows promise for applications requiring precise. rapid, narrowband photometry of faint objects. The spectrum of V2116 Oph, the counterpart of GX 1 + 4 (= X 1728 - 247), is exotic, even among the unusual spectra of other optical counterparts of compact Galactic X-ray sources. The second strongest emission line is an unusual one, namely extremely prominent O I lambda 8446, which is likely to result from pumping by an intense Ly beta radiation field. As the X-radiation from GX 1 + 4 is steadily pulsed, with typical pulsed fractions of 0.4, the O I lambda 8446 emission in V2116 Oph may also be strongly modulated with the current 127 s period of the X-ray source. If so, this may well allow us to obtain high signal-to-noise ratio radial velocity measurements and thus to determine the system parameters. However, no such pulsations are detected: and we set an tipper limit of similar to 1% (full amplitude) on periodic lambda 8446 oscillations at the X-ray frequency. This value is comparable to the amplitude of continuum oscillations observed on some nights by other workers. Thus we rule out an enhancement of the pulsation amplitude in O I emission, at least at the time of our observations.
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