Discovery of KiloHertz Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in the Z source Cygnus X-2

Details Discovery of KiloHertz Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in the Z source Cygnus X-2 Discovery of KiloHertz Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in the Z source Cygnus X-2

1997-11-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9711219v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, including 3 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/311138

During observations with RXTE we discovered two simultaneous kHz QPOs near 500 Hz and 860 Hz in the Z source Cyg X-2. In the X-ray color-color diagram and hardness-intensity diagram (HID) a clear Z track was traced out. A single kHz QPO peak was detected at the left end of the horizontal branch (HB) of the Z track, with a frequency of 731+/-20 Hz and an amplitude of 4.7+0.8-0.6 % rms in the energy band 5.0-60 keV. Further to the right on the HB, at somewhat higher count rates, an additional peak at 532+/-43 Hz was detected with an rms amplitude of 3.0+1.0-0.7 %. When the source moved down the HB, thus when the inferred mass accretion rate increased, the frequency of the higher-frequency QPO increased to 839+/-13 Hz, and its amplitude decreased to 3.5+0.4-0.3 % rms. The higher-frequency QPO was also detected on the upper normal branch (NB) with an rms amplitude of 1.8+0.6-0.4 % and a frequency of 1007+/-15 Hz; its peak width did not show a clear correlation with inferred mass accretion rate. The lower-frequency QPO was most of the time undetectable, with typical upper limits of 2 % rms, no conclusion on how this QPO behaved with mass accretion rate can be drawn. If the peak separation between the QPOs is the neutron star spin frequency (as required in some beat-frequency models) then the neutron star spin period is 2.9+/-0.2 ms (346+/-29 Hz).

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