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ASCA Observations of Soft X-Ray Transients in Quiescence: X1608-52 and Cen X-4

Abstract

We observed soft X-ray transients, X1608-52 and Cen X-4, in quiescence with ASCA at X-ray luminosities on the order of 10^(32- 33) erg s^(-1).The energy spectra were rather soft for both sources. Blackbody fits to the data required characteristic temperatures of 0.2-0.3 keV and emission regions of ~10 km^2. A conspicuous hard tail remained after fitting Cen X-4 with a blackbody curve. An extremely soft spectrum in quiescence seems to be a common property of soft X-ray transients.

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© 1996 Astronomical Society of Japan. Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System. Received November 6, 1995. Accepted January 26, 1996. First published online April 1, 1996. The authors thank the ASCA team members for their support. R.H. and K.M. are grateful to N. Shibazaki for stimulating discussions. Y. T. acknowledges the support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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