Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995aas...187.3102k&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 187th AAS Meeting, #31.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 27, p.1327
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We present an analysis of soft gamma-ray observations of the x-ray transient GRO J1655-40 made with OSSE. This galactic source has been observed to produce ``superluminal'' radio jets. Radio data indicate that we view the accretion disk edge on. OSSE detected emission in the 50-700 keV band during several observations of the target made during outbursts detected by BATSE in 1994 and 1995. The spectrum over this energy range is adequately described by a simple power law. There is no evidence for a thermal component or a high-energy exponential cutoff in the spectrum. The power spectrum of the soft gamma-ray emission shows no features and very little power at frequencies above 0.1 Hz. A possible interpretation of the absence of a thermal component in the spectrum and lack of high-frequency noise is that the accretion disk is obscured and that the soft gamma-ray emission observed originates in a hot extended corona. This work was supported in part by NASA Grant NAG 5-2235.
Ford Edward
Grabelsky David
Grove Eric J.
Harmon Alan B.
Kaaret Phil
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