Simultaneous X-ray/optical observations of GX 9+9 (4U 1728-16)

Details Simultaneous X-ray/optical observations of GX 9+9 (4U 1728-16) Simultaneous X-ray/optical observations of GX 9+9 (4U 1728-16)

2006-02-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602175v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.368:781-795,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages, 13 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10157.x

We report on the results of the first simultaneous X-ray (RXTE) and optical (SAAO) observations of the luminous low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) GX 9+9 in 1999 August. The high-speed optical photometry revealed an orbital period of 4.1958 hr and confirmed previous observations, but with greater precision. No X-ray modulation was found at the orbital period. On shorter timescales, a possible 1.4-hr variability was found in the optical light curves which might be related to the mHz quasi-periodic oscillations seen in other LMXBs. We do not find any significant X-ray/optical correlation in the light curves. In X-rays, the colour-colour diagram and hardness-intensity diagram indicate that the source shows characteristics of an atoll source in the upper banana state, with a correlation between intensity and spectral hardness. Time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy suggests that two-component spectral models give a reasonable fit to the X-ray emission. Such models consist of a blackbody component which can be interpreted as the emission from an optically thick accretion disc or an optically thick boundary layer, and a hard Comptonized component for an extended corona.

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