EXOSAT OBSERVATIONS OF THE ULTRA-SOFT X-RAY BINARY 4U1957+11

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1995-01-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9501098v1

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We present results from the analysis of the two EXOSAT observations of the low mass X-ray binary (LMXRB) 4U1957+11. The 1-20keV spectrum of the source is best fitted by a power law model with exponential cutoff, that provides an approximation of a thermal Comptonisation spectrum. The cutoff energy (~2keV), as well as the X-ray colours, are intermediate between those of ultrasoft sources containing black hole candidates (BHCs) and those of soft LMXRBs containing an old accreting neutron star. We find no evidence for a black body spectral component. During the 1985 observation, the source flux was 10% higher than in the 1983 observation, and the ME spectra provide evidence for a high energy tail (up to ~16keV), which strengthens the similarity with the spectra of high state BHCs. However the source luminosity was only ~5 10^36 ergs/s. During the 1985 observation the GSPC spectra revealed the presence of a 100eV EW iron K-line emission feature with a centroid energy of 7.06+/-0.09keV; this value is among the highest measured by {\it EXOSAT}. The ME light curves showed only a low-amplitude variability on timescales of a few hours. No evidence for a periodic modulation with periods between 0.016 and 13000~s was found.

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