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- method wards et al. 2006) v2024.12.1 to update the more accu- rate ephemeris of the source. Times of arrival (ToAs) were derived throughZ 2 searching, with the minimum phase in each profile serving as the ToA for the corre- sponding observation (Ge et al. 2012, 2019; Younes et al. 2020; Peng et al. 2026). For spectral analysis, we per- formed fitting using XSPEC (Arnaud 1996) v12.14.1, as part of HEASoft v6.34, which allowed us to model and analyze the spectra comprehensively. NICER data that partly ov
- method CXOU J191238.0+101043 is flatter than a single Gaussian function in radii larger than 5. ′′0. We then extracted the Chandra spectra from a 19. ′′0 radius circle centered on these sources. We performed a simple phenomenological fit with a power-law model in the 1-5 keV band, where the background is nearly negligible. We used XSPEC version 12.14.1 (K. A. Arnaud 1996) for the spectroscopy. The derived flux in the 2-10 keV band and power-law index are ∼1.5×10 −14 erg s −1 cm−2 and∼2.6 for CXOU J1912
- method 2025) indicate that the inclusion of DDO51 can substantially reduce the Teff-logg degeneracy inherent to broadband-only configurations. While the present work focuses on the data release and calibration of the DDO51 band, these results illustrate the expected role of DDO51 as the primary gravity-sensitive component of the SAGES system. The primary science drivers for the SAGES DDO51 observations include: (1) photometric pre-selection of giant stars for spectroscopic follow-up surveys; (2) large-
- method spectrum of 2CXO J0507 clearly shows hydrogen emis- sion lines and signatures of an M-dwarf donor (see Fig- ure 2), inconsistent with the helium-dominated donor, like in AM CVns (Ramsay et al. 2018) or helium CVs (Green et al. 2020). We performed additional Lomb- Scargle analysis using a two-term sinusoidal model to search for periodicity. We detected the strongest peak atP= 140.3211(2) min≈2.34 hr, which exceeds the 3σconfidence level. We identify this period as the or- bital period (orbital fr
- method the standardtardisradiation-field and plasma deter- 9 https://github.com/tardis-sn/tardis/tree/release-2025.03.23 Spectral Inference of SN 2014L5 T able 1.Model parameters and prior distributions tardisSample Grid a Inference Prior Parameter Distribution Range Parameter Distribution Range SN t[days] Uniform [8, 36] t[days] Uniform [8, 36] L[erg s −1] Log-uniform [6.31e+41, 3.98e+42] L[erg s −1] Log-uniform [6.31e+41, 3.98e+42] Densityb ρ0 [g cm−3 ] Log-uniform [3.16e-11, 1e-8] αρ c Uniform [-10,
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