Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-01-06
Astron.Astrophys. 399 (2003) 1151-1158
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 7 figues, accepted to A+A
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20021881
We present analysis and spectral fits of the RXTE data from the May/June 1999 outburst of Aql X-1. These data include observations in the rising portion of the hard state, in the soft state, and in the falling portion of the hard state. We show that the data can be fit by a purely thermal Comptonization model for all the observations, but that more complicated models cannot be ruled out. Up to 60% of the corona's power in the soft state may be injected into non-thermal electrons. The soft state data show approximately constant optical depth and coronal temperatures over a range of $\sim10$ in luminosity, while they show evidence for a reduction of seed photon temperature with reduced luminosity and indicate that the characteristic size of the seed photon emitting region is roughly constant throughout the soft state. The hard state before the soft state shows a higher luminosity, higher optical depth, and lower electron temperature than the hard state after the soft state. We find a reduction of the hard (30-60 keV) X-ray flux during a type I burst and show that it requires a total corona energy reservoir of less than $\sim 10^{38}$ ergs.
Coppi Paolo S.
Maccarone Thomas J.
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