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低质量X射线双星天鹰座X-1在软硬态的吸积几何

Accretion Geometry of the Low-Mass X-ray Binary Aquila X-1 in the Soft and Hard States

Soki Sakurai, Shin'ya Yamada, Shunsuke Torii, Hirofumi Noda, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Kazuo Makishima

摘要:

2007年9月28日至10月30日,朱雀X射线天文台在一次爆发的衰变阶段总共观测了七次中子星低质量X射线双星天鹰座X-1。为了限制在更宽的能带比以前的大多数作品,本研究利用了两个七个数据集的通量依赖的吸积几何形状的源。9月28日,用XIS和HXD-PIN以13.8 k s的曝光量拍摄的0.8-31 keV的光谱,显示出$3.6\times 10^{-9}$ erg s $^{-1}$ cm $^{-2}$的0.8-31 keV吸收通量,以及这类天体软态的典型特征。光谱成功地解释了光学厚盘发射加上康普顿黑体组件。虽然这些结果与以前的研究基本一致,但在我们的分析中,最近使用相同数据报告的硬尾的意义是不确定的。在吸收通量为$8.5\times 10^{-10}$ erg s $^{-1}$ cm $^{-2}$(单位:0.8 - 100 keV)的条件下,使用XIS、HXD-PIN和HXD-GSO在0.8 - 100 keV波段上检测到10月9日在19.7 ks曝光量下获得的光谱。它显示出硬态的特征,并成功地解释了相同的两个连续分量,但具有相当不同的参数,包括更强的热康普顿化,其中的种子光子源被确定为来自中子星表面的黑体发射。结果表明,硬态吸积流在距中子星半径为$21\pm 4$ km处呈现出光学厚而几何薄的盘状,然后转变为光学薄的近球形热流.

英文摘要:

The neutron-star Low-Mass X-ray Binary Aquila X-1 was observed seven times in total with the Suzaku X-ray observatory from September 28 to October 30 in 2007, in the decaying phase of an outburst. In order to constrain the flux-dependent accretion geometry of this source over wider energy bands than employed in most of previous works, the present study utilized two out of the seven data sets. The 0.8-31 keV spectrum on September 28, taken with the XIS and HXD-PIN for an exposure of 13.8 ks, shows an absorbed 0.8-31 keV flux of $3.6\times 10^{-9}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$, together with typical characteristics of the soft state of this type of objects. The spectrum was successfully explained by an optically-thick disk emission plus a Comptonized blackbody component. Although these results are in general agreement with previous studies, the significance of a hard tail recently reported using the same data was inconclusive in our analysis. The spectrum acquired on October 9 for an exposure of 19.7 ks was detected over a 0.8-100 keV band with the XIS, HXD-PIN, and HXD-GSO, at an absorbed flux of $8.5\times 10^{-10}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ (in 0.8-100 keV). It shows characteristics of the hard state, and was successfully explained by the same two continuum components but with rather different parameters including much stronger thermal Comptonization, of which the seed photon source was identified with blackbody emission from the neutron-star surface. As a result, the accretion flow in the hard state is inferred to take a form of an optically-thick and geometrically-thin disk down to a radius of $21\pm 4$ km from the neutron star, and then turn into an optically-thin nearly-spherical hot flow.

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