RXTE observations of Galactic microquasar XTE J1748--288 during its 1998 outburst

Details RXTE observations of Galactic microquasar XTE J1748--288 during its 1998 outburst RXTE observations of Galactic microquasar XTE J1748--288 during its 1998 outburst

1999-03-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9903306v3

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 315 (2000) 655

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03613.x

We present an analysis of the RXTE observations of the recently discovered Galactic microquasar XTE J1748--288 during its 1998 outburst. The spectral evolution of the source during the outburst can be considered a sequence of qualitatively distinct states. During the first observations, corresponding to the maximum of X-ray flux, the spectrum of the source consisted of a dominating hard power law component and a soft thermal component, which can be described by the model of multicolor disk emission. The hard component contributed >80% to the X-ray luminosity in the 3-25 keV energy band. Overall two-component spectral shape is an attribute of Very High state (VHS) observed previously in BHC, but the domination of hard component is unusual. Later on, as the X-ray source faded, its energy spectrum qualitatively changed, showing High (HS) and then Low (LS) states, both typical for black hole binaries. As the energy spectrum changed, the fast variability also evolved dramatically. Initially the power density spectrum was formed by a dominating band-limited noise component, QPO features at 20-30 Hz and at ~0.5 Hz, and a very low frequency noise component. After a significant decrease of the contribution of the hard spectral component the amplitude of the fractional variability decreased by an order of magnitude and the PDS spectrum adopted a power-law shape with a broad QPO peak around 0.03 Hz. When the system switched to the LS, the PDS shape changed again and the QPOs have not been detected since. When the source was observed in VHS, a clear correlation between QPO parameters and X-ray flux was seen.

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