AN EMPIRICAL METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF RXTE PCA SPECTRA

We fitted all of the several hundred RXTE PCA spectra of the Crab individually to a simple power-law model; the total number of counts in the composite spectrum is >10[superscript 9]. We then used the spectrum of residuals to derive a calibration tool, called pcacorr, that we apply to large sampl...

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Main Authors: McClintock, Jeffrey E. (Author), Steiner, James F. (Author), Grinberg, Victoria (Contributor), Garcia, Javier A. (Author), Remillard, Ronald A (Author)
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), Remillard, Ronald Alan (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2015-02-18T16:44:35Z.
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