Spectral Analyses of the Nearest Persistent Ultraluminous X-Ray Source M33 X-8

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

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11 pages, 1 table, 2 figures, accepted by PASJ

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We provide a detailed analysis of 12 XMM observations of the nearest persistent extragalactic ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX), M33 X-8. No significant spectral evolution is detected between the observations, therefore we combine the individual observations to increase the signal-to-noise ratio for spectral fitting. The combined spectra are best fitted by the self-consistent p-free disk plus power-law component model with p = 0.571_{-0.030}^{+0.032}, kT_{in} = 1.38_{-0.08}^{+0.09} keV, and the flux ratio of the p-free disk component to the power-law component being 0.63:0.37 in the 0.3 -- 10 keV band. The fitting indicates that the black hole in M33 X-8 is of \sim 10 M_{\odot} and accretes at a super-Eddington rate (\sim 1.5 L_{Edd}), and the phase of the accretion disk is close to a slim disk (p = 0.5). We report, for the first time, that an extra power-law component is required in addition to the p-free disk model for ULXs. In super-Eddington cases, the power-law component may possibly result from the optically thin inner region f the disk or a comptonized corona similar to that of a standard thin disk.

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