The X-ray eclipse of OY Car resolved with XMM-Newton
Minimum credit line: Image courtesy of P.J. Wheatle, Leicester University and ESA. (for details, see Conditions of Use).
Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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Light curve of the white dwarf OY Car during its X-ray eclipse. These XMM-Newton observations show for the first time resolved X-ray ingress and egress of an eclipse in a dwarf nova. Top panel are optical (B filter) and bottom panel X-ray data.
Investigator(s): P.J. Wheatley and R.G. West
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- Read the Journal article
- Detailed description of this image
- Query XSA archive for XMM-Newton data in the field of OY Car
- Astronomical database entries for OY Car;
- Query NED for more images about OY Car
- Query SIMBAD for more OY Car data
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