Visualizations by Andy Beardmore

An animated gif of an intermediate polar by Andy Beardmore;
shows the orbital motion of the secondary, with accretion stream
from the L1 point to the truncated disk, and accretion curtains
rotating at the spin period of the primary

A view at one phase (gif file)

Another view (gif file)

X-ray Spin (etc.) Profiles

I hope to populate this section over the next year, mostly from ASCA observations. The bottom of each panel is 0, to show the depth of modulation in different band in different systems.

Canonical X-ray spin profiles of AO Psc; see also its orbital and beat profiles from the same ASCA data.
Canonical X-ray spin profiles of V1223 Sgr
Complex X-ray spin profiles of PQ Gem
Quiecent and outburst X-ray spin profiles of GK Per

Please send your comments, suggestions etc. to Koji.Mukai@nasa.gov and/or Koji.Mukai@umbc.edu

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