Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-05-28
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics (major changes following the referee's comments)
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:200810227
We present INTEGRAL light curves and spectra of the black-hole binary Cyg X-1 during a bright event that occurred in 2006 September, and which was simultaneous with a detection at 0.15-1 TeV energies by the MAGIC telescope. We analyse the hard X-ray emission from 18 to 700 keV with the INTEGRAL data taken on 2006 September 24-26. We present the light curves and fit the high energy spectrum with various spectral models. Despite variations in the flux by a factor of ~2 in the the 20-700 keV energy band, the shape of the energy spectrum remained remarkably stable. It is very well represented by an e-folded power law with the photon index of 1.4 and a high energy cut-off around 130-140 keV. The spectrum is also well described by thermal Comptonisation including a moderate reflection component, with a reflectionamplitude R around 0.4. The temperature of the hot Comptonising electrons is ~70 keV and their Thomson optical depth is ~2.5. These spectral properties are typical of those observed in the low/hard state. This shows that Cyg X-1 may stay in the low hard state at least up to the flux level of 2 Crab, which corresponds to ~2-3 percent of the Eddington luminosity. It is the first time a persistent high-mass black-hole binary is observed at a few percent of the Eddington luminosity with a stable low/hard state spectrum over a period of a few days. The TeV detection coincides with the peak of a small X-ray flare just after a very fast rise in hard X-ray flux. In contrast, the source remained undetected by MAGIC at the peak of a larger X-ray flare occurring one day later and corresponding to the maximum of the X-ray luminosity of the whole outburst. We do not find any obvious correlation between the X-ray and TeV emission.
Cadolle Bel Marion
Laurent Pascal
Lubinski Piotr
Malzac Julien
Türler Marc
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