RXTE Monitoring of LMC X-3
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We present results from an RXTE monitoring campaign of the black hole candidate LMC X-3 since 1996 December. The spectral properties of this canonical soft state source show considerable variability on timescales of \$\backslashsim 100\$d. We report on these changes, including on two or possibly three instances where we found that the soft spectral component vanishes and where the X-ray spectrum of LMC X-3 resembles that of a hard state source such as Cyg X-I. |
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2001
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131-132
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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| Conference Location |
Berlin, Heidelberg
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| ISBN Number |
978-3-540-44562-3
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| DOI |
10.1007/10720995_21
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