IBIS preliminary results on Cygnus X-1 spectral and temporal characteristics

Details IBIS preliminary results on Cygnus X-1 spectral and temporal characteristics IBIS preliminary results on Cygnus X-1 spectral and temporal characteristics

2003-09-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309510v1

Astron.Astrophys.411:L389-L394,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 8 figures (4 in color), accepted for publication in A&A, INTEGRAL special issue

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20031349

We report preliminary results of a broadband spectral and temporal study of the black-hole binary Cyg X-1 performed with the IBIS telescope. Cyg X-1 was the first pointed celestial target of IBIS during the INTEGRAL Performance and Verification Phase, 2002 Nov.-Dec., for a total observing time of 2 Ms in both staring and dithering mode. Here, we report on only the staring, on-axis, observation performed in a stable instrument configuration. During the observing period the source was in its characteristic low/hard state, in which a few flares and dips have been detected. The IBIS/ISGRI results demonstrate that the INTEGRAL observatory offers a unique capability for studying correlations between hardness and/or flux in different bands over a wide photon energy range. One of our new results is finding that the hardness-flux correlation changes the sign twice over the 20-220 keV; first from positive to negative at 50 keV, and then back to positive at 120 keV. The former change appears to be due to the spectral curvature introduced by variable Compton reflection. The latter may be due spectral pivoting.

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