The Spin-Up Rate of the White Dwarf of GK Per
| dc.creator | Mauche, Christopher W. | |
| dc.date | 2003-01-29 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:07:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:07:21Z | |
| dc.description | We use hard X-ray light curves measured by the Chandra HETG and RXTE PCA during the late rise and plateau phases of the 2002 March-April outburst of the intermediate polar GK Per to determine that its X-ray pulse period P = 351.332 +/- 0.002 s. Combined with previous X-ray and optical measurements of the spin period of the white dwarf, we find that its spin-up rate Pdot = 0.00027 +/- 0.00005 s/yr. | |
| dc.description | 4 pages including 3 encapsulated postscript figures; LaTeX format, uses newpasp.sty; to appear in the ASP Conference Series "IAU Colloquium No. 190--Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables" | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0301582 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0301582 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/5671 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | The Spin-Up Rate of the White Dwarf of GK Per | |
| dc.type | text |