pith. machine review for the scientific record. sign in

arxiv: astro-ph/0612129 · v2 · submitted 2006-12-05 · 🌌 astro-ph

Recognition: unknown

Millisecond Dips in Sco X-1 are Likely the Result of High-Energy Particle Events

Authors on Pith no claims yet
classification 🌌 astro-ph
keywords dipseventshigh-energymillisecondparticleresultastronomicalattributed
0
0 comments X
read the original abstract

Chang et al. (2006) reported millisecond duration dips in the X-ray intensity of Sco X-1 and attributed them to occultations of the source by small trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). We have found evidence that these dips are in fact not astronomical in origin, but rather the result of high-energy charged particle events in the RXTE PCA detectors.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.