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Title: Long-term Optical Observations of the Be/X-ray Binary X Per
Author: Hui Li, Jingzhi Yan, Jianeng Zhou, Qingzhong Liu (PMO)

We present the optical spectroscopic observations of X Per from 1999 to 2013 with the 2.16m telescope at Xinglong Station and the 2.4m telescope at Lijiang station, National Astronomical Observatories of China. Combining with the public optical photometric data, we find certain epochs of anti-correlations between the optical brightness and the intensity of the H{\alpha} and HeI 6678 lines, which may be attributed to the mass ejections from the Be star. Alternative explanations are however also possible. The variability of FeII 6317 line in the spectra of X Per might be also caused by the shocked waves formed after the mass ejections from the Be star. The X-ray activities of the system might also be connected with the mass ejection events from the Be star. When the ejected materials were transported from the surface of the Be star to the orbit of neutron star, an X-ray flare could be observed in its X-ray light curves. We use the neutron star as a probe to constrain the motion of the ejected material in the circumstellar disk. With the diffusion time of the ejected material from the surface of Be star to the orbit of neutron star, the viscosity parameter {\alpha} of the circumstellar disk is estimated to be 0.39 and 0.28 for the different time, indicating that the disk around Be star may be truncated by the neutron star at the 2:1 resonance radius and Type I X-ray outburst is unlikely to be observed in X Per.

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Title: Infrared studies of the Be star X Per
Authors: Blesson Mathew, D. P. K. Banerjee, Sachindra Naik, N. M. Ashok (Astronomy and Astrophysics Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India)

Photometric and spectroscopic results are presented for the Be star X Per/HD 24534 from near-infrared monitoring in 2010-2011. The star is one of a sample of selected Be/X-ray binaries being monitored by us in the near-IR to study correlations between their X ray and near-IR behaviour. Comparison of the star's present near-IR magnitudes with earlier records shows the star to be currently in a prominently bright state with mean J, H, K magnitudes of 5.49, 5.33 and 5.06 respectively. The JHK spectra are dominated by emission lines of HeI and Paschen and Brackett lines of HI. Lines of OI 1.1287 and 1.3165 micron are also present and their relative strength indicates, since OI 1.1287 is stronger among the two lines, that Lyman beta fluorescence plays an important role in their excitation. Recombination analysis of the HI lines is done which shows that the Paschen and Brackett line strengths deviate considerably from case B predictions. These deviations are attributed to the lines being optically thick and this supposition is verified by calculating the line center optical depths predicted by recombination theory. Similar calculations indicate that the Pfund and Humphrey series lines should also be expected to be optically thick which is found to be consistent with observations reported in other studies. The spectral energy distribution of the star is constructed and shown to have an infrared excess. Based on the magnitude of the IR excess, which is modelled using a free-free contribution from the disc, the electron density in the disc is estimated and shown to be within the range of values expected in Be star discs.

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Title: The hard X-ray emission of X Per
Authors: V. Doroshenko, A. Santangelo, I. Kreykenbohm, R. Doroshenko

We present an analysis of the spectral properties of the peculiar X-ray pulsar X Per based on INTEGRAL observations. We show that the source exhibits an unusually hard spectrum and is confidently detected by ISGRI up to more than 100 keV. We find that two distinct components may be identified in the broadband 4-200 keV spectrum of the source. We interpret these components as the result of thermal and bulk Comptonisation in the vicinity of the neutron star and describe them with several semi-phenomenological models. The previously reported absorption feature at ~30 keV is not required in the proposed scenario and therefore its physical interpretation must be taken with caution. We also investigated the timing properties of the source in the framework of existing torque theory, concluding that the observed phenomenology can be consistently explained if the magnetic field of the neutron star is ~10^14 G.

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