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GX 339-4在硬到软状态转变中的光谱可变性

Spectral variability of GX 339-4 in a hard-to-soft state transition

M. Del Santo, J. Malzac, E. Jourdain, T. Belloni, P. Ubertini

摘要:

我们报告在2004年8月至9月期间进行的明亮的黑洞瞬态GX 339-4的积分观测。我们的数据涵盖了三种不同的光谱状态,即硬/中间态,软/中间态和高/软态。我们调查的光谱变异性的源在不同的光谱状态。硬X射线光谱在HIMS到SIMS过渡期间变得更软,但当达到HSS状态时变硬。主成分分析表明,大部分的变异性发生通过两个独立的模式:旋转的频谱约6千电子伏(负责75%的方差)和强度变化的硬组件(负责21%)。的枢转被解释为由于软冷却光子通量进入电晕的变化,第二种模式作为在电晕的加热速率的波动。我们对GX 339-4光谱的光谱分析表明,相对于HIMS中的纯热康普顿化模型,能量过剩很高:数据似乎要求非热幂律分量。在所有的光谱状态联合IBIS,SPI和JEM-X数据很好地代表了混合热/非热康普顿(EQPAIR)。光谱演化似乎主要是由日冕中电子加热速率与软冷却光子通量之比lh/ls的减小所驱动的。推断的吸积盘软热辐射增加了约两个数量级,而康普顿光度减少了最多3倍。这证实了我们观察到的软化是由于与电子加热速率的适度降低相关的日冕中软冷却光子通量的大幅增加。

英文摘要:

We report on INTEGRAL observations of the bright black-hole transient GX 339-4 performed during the period August-September 2004. Our data cover three different spectral states, namely Hard/Intermediate State, Soft/Intermediate State and High/Soft State. We investigate the spectral variability of the source across the different spectral states. The hard X-ray spectrum becomes softer during the HIMS-to-SIMS transition, but it hardens when reaching the HSS state. A principal component analysis demonstrates that most of the variability occurs through two independent modes: a pivoting of the spectrum around 6 keV (responsible for 75% of the variance) and an intensity variation of the hard component (responsible for 21%). The pivoting is interpreted as due to changes in the soft cooling photon flux entering the corona, the second mode as fluctuations of the heating rate in the corona. Our spectral analysis of the spectra of GX 339-4 shows a high energy excess with respect to pure thermal Comptonisation models in the HIMS: a non-thermal power-law component seems to be requested by data. In all spectral states joint IBIS, SPI and JEM-X data are well represented by hybrid thermal/non-thermal Comptonisation (EQPAIR). The spectral evolution seems to be predominantly driven by a reduction of the ratio of the electron heating rate to the soft cooling photon flux in the corona, l_h/l_s. The inferred accretion disc soft thermal emission increases by about two orders of magnitude, while the Comptonised luminosity decreases by at most a factor of 3. This confirms that the softening we observed is due to a major increase in the flux of soft cooling photons in the corona associated with a modest reduction of the electron heating rate.

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