Search for serendipitous Oort cloud object occultation in X-rays
Abstract
The existence of Oort cloud objects remains a hypothesis since proposed more than half a century ago. Here we report the results of search for serendipitous occultation events caused by Oort Cloud Objects (OCOs) using Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer/Proportional Counter Array (RXTE/PCA) data of Sco X-1 taken from 1996 February to 2012 January. We also investigate the dependence of detection efficiency on OCO size to better define the sensible size range of our approach.
- Publication:
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European Planetary Science Congress
- Pub Date:
- October 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015EPSC...10..424S