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RXTE broadband X-ray spectra of intermediate polars and white dwarf mass estimates

V. Suleimanov, M. Revnivtsev, H. Ritter

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0405236

Abstract

We present results of an analysis of broadband spectra of 14 intermediate polars obtained with the RXTE observatory (PCA and HEXTE spectrometers, 3-100 keV). By means of our calculations of the structure and the emergent spectrum of the post-shock region of intermediate polars we fitted the observed spectra and obtained estimates of the white dwarf masses. The estimated masses are compared with masses obtained by other authors.

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