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ULX Holmberg II X-1中谱曲率的演化

Evolution of the spectral curvature in the ULX Holmberg II X-1

J. J. E. Kajava, J. Poutanen, S. A. Farrell, F. Grisé, P. Kaaret

摘要:

超铝X射线源(ULX)是一个有趣的系统,因为它们可以容纳中等质量的黑洞。或者,ULX可以代表以超爱丁顿速率吸积的恒星质量黑洞。最近,在高质量的ULX光谱中已经检测到能量高于几keV的光谱曲率或断裂。这些光谱特征被认为是反对中等质量黑洞的证据。在本文中,我们报告了一个新的XMM-牛顿观测的ULX Holmberg II X-1,也显示了一个清晰的光谱断裂约4千电子伏。这一观测是在系统的低光度状态下进行的,通过将这一新数据与高光度状态的XMM-牛顿观测进行比较,我们可以得出结论,光谱断裂能随光度增加而增加。这种行为与Holmberg IX星系中的ULX不同,在Holmberg IX星系中,光度和光谱突变能量之间的趋势相反。我们讨论的机制,可以解释这种复杂的行为。

英文摘要:

Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are interesting systems as they can host intermediate mass black holes. Alternatively, ULXs can represent stellar-mass black holes accreting at super-Eddington rates. Recently spectral curvature or breaks at energies above a few keV have been detected in high quality ULX spectra. These spectral features have been taken as evidence against the intermediate-mass black hole case. In this paper, we report on a new XMM-Newton observation of the ULX Holmberg II X-1 that also shows a clear spectral break at approximately 4 keV. This observation was performed during a low luminosity state of the system and by comparing this new data to a high luminosity state XMM-Newton observation, we can conclude that the spectral break energy increases with luminosity. This behaviour is different to a ULX in the Holmberg IX galaxy,where an opposite trend between the luminosity and the spectral break energy has been claimed. We discuss mechanisms that could explain this complex behaviour.

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