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Extending emission line Doppler tomography ; mapping modulated line flux
Astrophysics · Submitted 20 May 2003
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The authors' main claim Artifact free reconstructions of complex emission distributions can be achieved under a wide range of signal to noise levels.
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Emission line Doppler tomography is a powerful tool that resolves the accretion flow in binaries on micro-arcsecond scales using time-resolved spectroscopy. I present an extension to Doppler tomography that relaxes one of its fundamental axioms and permits the mapping of time-dependent emission sources. Significant variability on the orbital period is a common characteristic of the emission sources that are observed in the accretion flows of cataclysmic variables and X-ray binaries. Modulation Doppler tomography maps sources varying harmonically as a function of the orbital period through the simultaneous reconstruction of three Doppler tomograms. One image describes the average flux distribution like in standard tomography, while the two additional images describe the variable component in terms of its sine and cosine amplitudes. I describe the implementation of such an extension in the form of the maximum entropy based fitting code MODMAP. Test reconstructions of synthetic data illustrate that the technique is robust and well constrained. Artifact free reconstructions of complex emission distributions can be achieved under a wide range of signal to noise levels. An application of the technique is illustrated by mapping the orbital modulations of the asymmetric accretion disc emission in the dwarf nova IP Pegasi.
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| s0 | Emission line Doppler tomography is a powerful tool that resolves the accretion flow in binaries on micro-arcsecond scales using time-resolved spectroscopy. | background 1.00 | 0.07 | 0.04 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | I present an extension to Doppler tomography that relaxes one of its fundamental axioms and permits the mapping of time-dependent emission sources. | contribution 1.00 | 0.92 | 0.37 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | Significant variability on the orbital period is a common characteristic of the emission sources that are observed in the accretion flows of cataclysmic variables and X-ray binaries. | background 1.00 | 0.08 | 0.04 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | Modulation Doppler tomography maps sources varying harmonically as a function of the orbital period through the simultaneous reconstruction of three Doppler tomograms. | method 0.85 | 0.57 | 0.20 | asserted 1.00 |
| s4 | One image describes the average flux distribution like in standard tomography, while the two additional images describe the variable component in terms of its sine and cosine amplitudes. | method 0.96 | 0.61 | 0.10 | asserted 1.00 |
| s5 | I describe the implementation of such an extension in the form of the maximum entropy based fitting code MODMAP. | method 0.83 | 0.93 | 0.06 | asserted 0.99 |
| s6 | Test reconstructions of synthetic data illustrate that the technique is robust and well constrained. | result 0.96 | 0.91 | 0.20 | asserted 1.00 |
| s7 | Artifact free reconstructions of complex emission distributions can be achieved under a wide range of signal to noise levels. | result 0.97 | 0.86 | 0.18 | asserted 0.87 |
| s8 | An application of the technique is illustrated by mapping the orbital modulations of the asymmetric accretion disc emission in the dwarf nova IP Pegasi. | result 0.56 | 0.91 | 0.16 | asserted 1.00 |
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Emission line Doppler tomography is a powerful tool that resolves the accretion flow in binaries on micro-arcsecond scales using time-resolved spectroscopy. I present an extension to Doppler tomography that relaxes one of its fundamental axioms and permits the mapping of time-dependent emission sources. Significant variability on the orbital period is a common characteristic of the emission sources that are observed in the accretion flows of cataclysmic variables and X-ray binaries. Modulation Doppler tomography maps sources varying harmonically as a function of the orbital period through the simultaneous reconstruction of three Doppler tomograms. One image describes the average flux distribution like in standard tomography, while the two additional images describe the variable component in terms of its sine and cosine amplitudes. I describe the implementation of such an extension in the form of the maximum entropy based fitting code MODMAP. Test reconstructions of synthetic data illustrate that the technique is robust and well constrained. Artifact free reconstructions of complex emission distributions can be achieved under a wide range of signal to noise levels. An application of the technique is illustrated by mapping the orbital modulations of the asymmetric accretion disc emission in the dwarf nova IP Pegasi.
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