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English: This light curve of Her X-1 shows long term and medium term variability. Each pair of vertical lines deliniate the eclipse of the compact object behind its companion star. In this case, the companion is a 2 Solar-mass star with a radius of nearly 4 times that of our Sun. This eclipse shows us the orbital period of the system, 1.7 days.
The long term variability shown here is precession of a disk of accreting matter around the neutron star. This precession has a 35-day period. In addition, the neutron star in Her X-1 is also a pulsar with a 1.24 second pulse period. |
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| Source | NASA's HEASARC: Observatories, Goddard Spaceflight Center, Uhuru observations of Hercules X-1 |
| Author | HEASARC Director: Dr. Alan P. Smale HEASARC Associate Director: Dr. Roger Brissenden Responsible NASA Official: Phil Newman Web Curator: Meredith Gibb |
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| 03:04, 27 September 2009 |  | 510 × 203 (14 KB) | Marshallsumter | {{Information |Description={{en|1=This light curve of Her X-1 shows long term and medium term variability. Each pair of vertical lines deliniate the eclipse of the compact object behind its companion star. In this case, the companion is a 2 Solar-mass sta |
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