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arxiv: astro-ph/0507066 · v1 · submitted 2005-07-04 · 🌌 astro-ph

Multiband Echo Tomography of Sco X-1

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keywords lightcurvesx-raybowenconsistentcontinuumheiireprocessingsimultaneous
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We present preliminary results of a simultaneous X-ray/optical campaign of the prototypical LMXB Sco X-1 at 1-10 Hz time resolution. Lightcurves of the high excitation Bowen/HeII emission lines and a red continuum at lambda ~ 6000 Ang were obtained through narrow interference filters with ULTRACAM, and these were cross-correlated with simultaneous RXTE X-ray lightcurves. We find evidence for correlated variability, in particular when Sco X-1 enters the Flaring Branch. The Bowen/HeII lightcurves lag the X-ray lightcurves with a light travel time which is consistent with reprocessing in the companion star while the continuum lightcurves have shorter delays consistent with reprocessing in the accretion disc

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