Discovery of microsecond time lags in kilohertz QPO

Details Discovery of microsecond time lags in kilohertz QPO Discovery of microsecond time lags in kilohertz QPO

1997-04-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9704245v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 1 Postscript figure, LaTeX, to appear in Ap.J Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/310740

Using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer we have measured 27 microsecond time delays in 830 Hz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) between 4-6 keV and 11-17 keV in 4U 1608-52, with high-energy photons lagging low energy photons, and found upper limits to the time delays of 45 microseconds between 2-6.5 keV and 6.5-67 keV in 730 Hz QPO in 4U 0614+091 and 30 microseconds between 8.7-12.4 keV and 12.4-67 keV in 870 Hz QPO in 4U 1636-53. We also find that the cross coherence function between QPO at different energies is > 0.85 with 95% confidence in 4U 1608-52 and 4U 1636-53. If Compton upscattering of low-energy X-rays in a region with an optical depth of a few is responsible for the delays, then the Compton upscattering region is between a few kilometers and a few tens of kilometers in size.

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