Abstract

On Aug. 5, 1992 BATSE discovered the bright X‐ray transient GRO J0422+32, also known as Nova Per 1992. The COMPTEL instrument (0.75–30 MeV) aboard CGRO observed this black‐hole candidate twice. During the first observation, which started when the X‐ray flux was at its maximum, GRO J0422+32 was detected up to 2 MeV. The fluxes in the 0.75–1 and 1–2 MeV range were signficantly higher than expected based on an extrapolation of the contemporaneous OSSE data. The COMPTEL spectral points can be interpreted as evidence for a Wien‐type spectral component with temperature k T≊300 keV. During the second observation, 3 weeks after the first, GRO J0422+32 was detected only up to 1 MeV.

Department

Space Science Center, Physics

Publication Date

1994

Journal Title

AIP Conference Proceedings

Publisher

AIP Publishing

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1063/1.45619

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Rights

© 1994 American Institute of Physics

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