GRS 1915+105 : High-energy Insights with SPI/INTEGRAL

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2008-11-17

arxiv.org/abs/0811.2703v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables; accepted (09/11/2008) for publication in A&A

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We report on results of two years of INTEGRAL/SPI monitoring of the Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105. From September 2004 to May 2006, the source has been observed twenty times with long (approx 100 ks) exposures. We present an analysis of the SPI data and focus on the description of the high-energy (> 20 keV) output of the source. We found that the 20 - 500 keV spectral emission of GRS 1915+105 was bound between two states. It seems that these high-energy states are not correlated with the temporal behavior of the source, suggesting that there is no direct link between the macroscopic characteristics of the coronal plasma and the the variability of the accretion flow. All spectra are well fitted by a thermal comptonization component plus an extra high-energy powerlaw. This confirms the presence of thermal and non-thermal electrons around the black hole.

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