Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-05-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
29 pages, 16 figures, To apear in A&A
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20020689
(Abridged) We present an analysis of a 10-day continuous ASCA observation of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy IRAS 13224-3809. The soft (0.7-1.3 keV) and hard (1.3-10 keV) X-ray band light curves binned to 5000s reveal trough-to-peak variations by a factor >25 and 20, respectively. The light curves in the soft and hard bands are strongly correlated without any significant delay. However, this correlation is not entirely due to changes in the power-law flux alone but also due to changes in the soft X-ray hump emission above the power law. The presence of a soft X-ray hump below 2 keV, previously detected in ROSAT and ASCA data, is confirmed. Time resolved spectroscopy using daily sampling reveals changes in the power-law slope, with Gamma in the range 1.74-2.47, however, day-to-day variations in Gamma are not significant. The Soft hump emission is found to dominate the observed variability on a timescale of a week, but on shorter timescales (20000s) the power-law component appears to dominate the observed variability. Flux resolved spectroscopy reveals that at high flux levels the power law becomes steeper and the soft hump more pronounced. The steepening of the photon index with the fluxes in the soft and hard bands can be understood in the framework of disk/corona models in which accretion disk is heated by viscous dissipation as well as by reprocessing of hard X-rays following an X-ray flare resulting from coronal dissipation through magnetic reconnection events.
Boller Th.
Dewangan Gulab Chand
Leighly Karen M.
Singh Kamal P.
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