Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Shot noise in USA lightcurves of XTE J1118+480 and cygnus X-1. |
| Authors: |
Focke, Warren B., Bloom, E. D., Giebels, B., Godfrey, G., Reilly, K. T., Parkinson, P. Saz, Shabad, G., Wood, K. S., Ray, P. S., Bandyopadhyay, R. M., Wolff, M. T., Fritz, G., Hertz, P., Kowalski, M. P., Lovellette, M. N., Yentis, D., Scargle, Jeffrey D. |
| Source: |
AIP Conference Proceedings. 2001, Vol. 586 Issue 1, p690. 3p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*CYGNUS X-1, *LIGHT curves, *BINARY stars |
| Abstract: |
We investigate the behavior of the new transient black hole candidate XTE J1118+480 using shot noise models in the time domain. Using light curves from the Unconventional Stellar Aspect experiment (USA), we model a portion of the emission as a superposition of shots. Individual structures in the light curve are fit to a template function. The results are compared to a similar analysis performed on light curves from Cygnus X-1. Results indicate that the characteristic timescale for XTE J1118+480 is around 3 times as long as for Cygnus X-1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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