Flux Dependence of the 1,keV Soft X-ray Feature in SAX J1808.4-3658 with NICER

arXiv:2610.10951 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-10-07 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-07

Terminology

• Calibration — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Abundance — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accretion Flows — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accretion Shock — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Physics of 1 keV line in X-ray binaries
• Discovery of the X-ray transient SAX J1808.4-3658, a likely low mass X-ray binary

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