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

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arxiv astro-ph/0612129 v2 pith:ZY7RO7Q2 submitted 2006-12-05 astro-ph

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

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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.

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