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Swift Monitoring Of Cygnus X-2: Investigating The Near-Ultraviolet-X-Ray Connection, E. S. Rykoff, E. M. Cackett, J. M. Miller
Swift Monitoring Of Cygnus X-2: Investigating The Near-Ultraviolet-X-Ray Connection, E. S. Rykoff, E. M. Cackett, J. M. Miller
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Research Publications
The neutron star X-ray binary (NSXRB) Cyg X-2 was observed by the Swift satellite 51 times over a 4 month period in 2008 with the X-ray Telescope (XRT), UV/optical telescope, and Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) instruments. During this campaign, we observed Cyg X-2 in all three branches of the Z track (horizontal, normal, and flaring branches). We find that the NUV emission is uncorrelated with the soft X-ray flux detected with the XRT and is anticorrelated with the BAT X-ray flux and the hard X-ray color. The observed anticorrelation is inconsistent with simple models of reprocessing as the source of …