Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-08-16
Astrophys.J.649:L91-L94,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages including 3 figures. Accepted for publication by ApJ Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/508489
We present here simultaneous INTEGRAL/RXTE observations of Sco X-1, and in particular a study of the hard X-ray emission of the source and its correlation with the position in the Z-track of the X-ray color-color diagram. We find that the hard X-ray (above about 30 keV) emission of Sco X-1 is dominated by a power-law component with a photon index of ~3. The flux in the power-law component slightly decreases when the source moves in the color-color diagram in the sense of increasing inferred mass accretion rate from the horizontal branch to the normal branch/flaring branch vertex. It becomes not significantly detectable in the flaring branch, where its flux has decreased by about an order of magnitude. These results present close analogies to the behavior of GX 17+2, one of so-called Sco-like Z sources. Finally, the hard power law in the spectrum of Sco X-1 does not show any evidence of a high energy cutoff up to 100 - 200 keV, strongly suggesting a non-thermal origin of this component.
Bazzano Angela
Burderi Luciano
Farinelli Ruben
Frontera Filippo
Goldoni Paolo
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