SUMMARY OF PROPOSAL 53007
KEELE UNIVERSITY
STAFFORDSHIRE UK ST5 5BG
KEELE
Tel: +44 1782 584243 Fax: +44 1782 711093
Medium: 2GBDAT
Subject: CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES
THE NEW INTERMEDIATE POLAR RX1238-38
ABSTRACT
We have begun a systematic study of the spin pulses in intermediate polars using ASCA data, the first with sufficient resolution to give reliable results. This work has already overturned previous models, and has shown that different systems have distinctly different behaviours. We are therefore studying several X-ray bright intermediate polars to discover the range of possible behaviours and investigate the class as a whole. The newly discovered source RX1238-38 is one of the X-ray brightest intermediate polars, and the only one of these not so far to have been the target of a pointed observation. Initial optical followup has already revealed interesting features of the star, and we ask for the first X-ray pointing as a complement.
CO-INVESTIGATORS
| CO-I NAME | INSTITUTE | COUNTRY |
|---|
| MANABU ISHIDA | ISAS | JAPAN |
| DAVID BUCKLEY | SAAO | S AFRICA |
| ALASDAIR ALLAN | KEELE UNIVERSITY | UK |
TARGETS
| TARGET NAME | PRI | RA | DEC | TIME | TC | OFF | GIS | SIS CNT | OBS |
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| 1)RX 1238-38 | 1 | 189.5667 | -38.7125 | 60 ks | N | N | P | 0.50000 | 1 |