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    Breaking the Degeneracy in Magnetic Cataclysmic Variable X-Ray Spectral Modeling Using X-Ray Light Curves
    (IOP science) Belloni, Diogo; Rodrigues, Claudia Vilega; Schreiber, Matthias R.; Castro, Manuel; Costa, Joaquim Eduardo Rezende; Hayashi, Takayuki; Lima, Isabel de Jesus; Luna, Gerardo Juan Manuel; Martins, Murilo; Oliveira, Alexandre Soares de; Parsons, Steven G.; Silva, Karleyne Medeiros Gomes da; Stecchini, Paulo Eduardo; Stuchi, Teresa de Jesus; Zorotovic, Monica
    We present an analysis of mock X-ray spectra and light curves of magnetic cataclysmic variables using an upgraded version of the 3D cyclops code. This 3D representation of the accretion flow allows us to properly model total and partial occultation of the postshock region by the white dwarf as well as the modulation of the X-ray light curves due to the phase-dependent extinction of the preshock region. We carried out detailed postshock region modeling in a four-dimensional parameter space by varying the white dwarf mass and magnetic field strength as well as the magnetosphere radius and the specific accretion rate. To calculate the postshock region temperature and density profiles, we assumed equipartition between ions and electrons; took into account the white dwarf gravitational potential, the finite size of the magnetosphere, and a dipole-like magnetic field geometry; and considered cooling by both bremsstrahlung and cyclotron radiative processes. By investigating the impact of the parameters on the resulting X-ray continuum spectra, we show that there is an inevitable degeneracy in the four-dimensional parameter space investigated here, which compromises X-ray continuum spectral fitting strategies and can lead to incorrect parameter estimates. However, the inclusion of X-ray light curves in different energy ranges can break this degeneracy, and it therefore remains, in principle, possible to use X-ray data to derive fundamental parameters of magnetic cataclysmic variables, which represents an essential step toward understanding their formation and evolution.
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    The contact binary system TYC 7275-1968-1 as seen by optical, UV and X-ray observations
    (Elsevier) Lima, Isabel de Jesus; Mattiuci, Ana Carolina; Luna, Gerardo Juan Manuel; Oliveira, Alexandre Soares de; Rodrigues, Claudia Vilega; Palivanas, Natália; Nuñez, Natalia Edith
    We present an analysis of publicly available X-ray and optical observations of TYC 7275-1968-1, a contact binary, red nova progenitor candidate. The long optical time series of ASAS-3, SuperWASP, CRTS, Gaia, ASASSN, and TESS enabled us to improve its orbital period to 0.3828071 ± 0.0000026 d. We show the presence of an X-ray and UV source associated with TYC 7275-1968-1 from Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, that was previously assumed to be the counterpart of CD -36 8436 (V1044 Cen), a symbiotic star located 22 arcsec from the red nova candidate. The X-ray data indicate the presence of a region with a temperature of 𝑘𝑇 = 0.8+0.9 −0.1 keV and a luminosity of 1.4+0.1 −0.2 × 1031 erg s−1 in the range 0.3 – 10 keV. The detection of X-rays and modulated UV emission suggests that both components of the binary are chromospherically active.