@article{SugawaraTsuboiMaedaetal.2015, author = {Sugawara, Y. and Tsuboi, Y. and Maeda, Y. and Pollock, A. M. T. and Williams, P. M.}, title = {The Swift monitoring of the colliding wind binary WR 21a}, series = {Wolf-Rayet Stars : Proceedings of an International Workshop held in Potsdam, Germany, 1.-5. June 2015}, journal = {Wolf-Rayet Stars : Proceedings of an International Workshop held in Potsdam, Germany, 1.-5. June 2015}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-88517}, pages = {366}, year = {2015}, abstract = {The X-ray observations of the colliding wind binary WR 21a is reported. The first monitoring performed by Swift/XRT in order to reveal the phase-locked variation. Our observations cover 201 different epochs from 2013 October 1 to 2015 January 30 for a total exposure of about 306 ks. It is found for the first time that the luminosity varies roughly in inverse proportion to the separation of the two stars before the X-ray maximum but later drops rapidly toward periastron.}, language = {en} }