The eclipsing low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1822-371 is the prototypical accretion disk corona (ADC) system. We have obtained new time-resolved UV spectroscopy of 4U 1822-371 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys/Solar Blind Channel (ACS/SBC) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and new V- and J-band photometry with the 1.3-m SMARTS telescope at CTIO. We use the new data to construct its UV/optical spectral energy distribution and its orbital light curve in the UV, V, and J bands. We derive an improved ephemeris for the optical eclipses and confirm that the orbital period is changing rapidly, indicating extremely high rates of mass flow in the system; and we show that the accretion disk in the system has a strong wind with projected velocities up to 4000 km/s.
We show that the disk has a vertically-extended, optically-thick component at optical wavelengths.This component extends almost to the edge of the disk and has a height equal to ~0.5 of the disk radius. As it has a low brightness temperature, we identify it as the optically-thick base of a disk wind, not as the optical counterpart of the ADC. Like previous models of 4U 1822-371, ours needs a tall obscuring wall near the edge of the accretion disk, but we interpret the wall as a layer of cooler material at the base of the disk wind, not as a tall, luminous disk rim.
XRISM Observations of Accretion Disk Corona in Cyg X-2
University of Teacher Education Fukuoka(福冈教育大学);Hiroshima University(广岛大学);Technion(以色列理工学院);University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)(马里兰大学巴尔的摩县分校);NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center(美国国家航空航天局戈达德太空飞行中心);University of Michigan(密歇根大学);SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research(荷兰空间研究所);Massachusetts Institute of Technology(麻省理工学院)
Radiation and Magnetic Pressure Support in Accretion Disks around Supermassive Black Holes and The Physical Origin of the Extreme Ultraviolet to Soft X-ray Spectrum
The hydrogen Balmer lines and jump in absorption in accretion disc modeling -- an ultraviolet-optical spectral analysis of the dwarf novae UZ Serpentis and CY Lyrae
Directly tracking the re-brightening of a supermassive black hole accretion disk
INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma(意大利国家天体物理研究所罗马天文台);INAF – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri(意大利国家天体物理研究所阿切特里天文台);Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, Department of Physics, University of Durham(杜伦大学物理系河外星系研究中心);Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze(佛罗伦萨大学物理与天文系);Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”(罗马第二大学物理系);Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università degli Studi Roma Tre(罗马第三大学数学与物理系);Quasar Science Resources SL for ESA, (ESAC), Science Operations Department(欧洲空间局科学操作部门夸克科学资源有限公司);NASA(美国国家航空航天局)
The first IXPE view of the eclipsing ADC source 4U 1822-37
Università di Palermo(巴勒莫大学);NASA Marshall Space Flight Center(美国宇航局马歇尔太空飞行中心);Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH)(智利圣地亚哥大学);Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC)(空间科学研究所(西班牙国家科学研究委员会));INAF - IASF Palermo(意大利国家天体物理研究所巴勒莫分所);Università degli Studi di Cagliari(卡利亚里大学)
An Accretion Disc-Irradiation Hybrid Model for The Optical/UV Variability in Radio-Quiet Quasars
类星体的光/紫外光变与类星体的其它性质,如光度、黑洞质量和静止坐标系波长等都有密切的关系。然而,变异性的起源至今仍是一个谜。在这项工作中,我们升级的吸积盘模型(Li & Cao 2008),其中假设的变化是由全球质量吸积率的变化,通过限制盘的大小,以匹配的粘性时间尺度的吸积盘观测到的变化时间尺度,并通过包括照射/X射线后处理,使发射光谱变得陡峭。我们发现这个混合模型可以很好地再现观测到的蓝时亮的趋势,这是用来验证理论模型的一些工作最近。传统的变异幅度与静止帧波长的相关关系也可以用我们的模型很好地拟合。此外,一个弱的正相关性之间的变化幅度和黑洞质量的存在,定性与最近的观测。
Regulation of accretion by its outflow in a symbiotic star: the 2016 outflow fast state of MWC 560
吸积盘是如何受到其外流的影响?为了解决从冷巨星吸积的白矮星的这个问题,我们在其2016年光学高态期间对流出驱动共生星MWC 560(=V694 Mon)进行了光学,无线电,X射线和紫外线观测。我们跟踪了多波长的变化,这些变化表明,在长达数月的外流快态开始时,外流功率突然增加,就像光通量达到峰值一样:(1)巴耳末吸收速度突然加倍;(2)射电通量出现$20$ $μ$ Jy/月的增加;(3)软X射线通量出现数量级的增加。并置到以前的X射线观测和他们的同时代的光谱,我们推断,高速和低速的光学外流组件必须同时存在,以产生一个大的软X射线通量,这可能源于这些快速和缓慢的吸收碰撞的冲击。我们的光学和紫外光谱表明,宽吸收线气体在整个2016年流出快速状态中是快速,稳定和致密的($\gtrsim10^{6.5}$ cm $^{-3}$),稳定地供给低密度($\lesssim10^{5.5}$ cm $^{-3}$)区域的放射性气体。持续的光学和紫外线闪烁表明吸积盘保持完整。这些性质在2016年的稳定性与MWC 560在1990年爆发时的不稳定性形成对比,尽管圆盘达到了类似的吸积率。我们认为,2016年稳定的快速外流的自我调节效应阻止了内盘的灾难性弹射。这种行为在一个共生的二类似盘/流出的关系,在X射线双星吸积状态的变化。
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias(加那利天体物理研究所);Universidad de La Laguna(拉古纳大学);European Southern Observatory (ESO)(欧洲南方天文台);University of Durham(杜伦大学);INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera(意大利国家天体物理研究所布里耶拉天文台);Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik(马克斯·普朗克地外物理研究所);Università degli Studi dell’Insubria(因苏布里亚大学);Osaka University(大阪大学)
Ultraviolet spectroscopy of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 across a state transition
University of Southampton(南安普顿大学);University of Warwick(华威大学);Space Telescope Science Institute(太空望远镜科学研究所);Eureka Scientific, Inc.(尤里卡科学公司);Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA)(大学间天文学与天体物理学中心);Louisiana State University(路易斯安那州立大学);Columbia University(哥伦比亚大学);American Museum of Natural History(美国自然历史博物馆)