Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-09-26
AIP Conf.Proc.1054:39-47,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, 3 figures; to appear in the proceedings of "Cool discs, hot flows: The Varying Faces of Accreting Compact Objects", F
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.3002507
We study spectral variability of 11 ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULX) using archived XMM-Newton and Chandra observations. We use three models to describe the observed spectra; a power-law, a multi-colour disk (MCD) and a combination of these two models. We find that out of the 11 ULXs in our sample, 7 ULXs show a correlation between the luminosity and the photon index Gamma (hereafter L-Gamma correlation). Furthermore, out of the 7 ULXs that have the L-Gamma correlation, 4 ULXs also show spectral pivoting in the observed energy band. We also find that two ULXs show an L-Gamma anti-correlation. The spectra of 4 ULXs in the sample can be adequately fitted with a MCD model. We compare these sources to known black hole binaries (BHB) and find that they follow similar paths in their luminosity-temperature (hereafter L-T) diagrams. Finally we show that the 'soft excess' reported for many of these ULXs at 0.2 keV seem to follow a trend L \propto T^{-4} when modeled with a power-law plus a 'cool' MCD model. This is contrary to the expected L \propto T^4 relation that is expected from theory and what is seen for many accreting BHBs.
Kajava Jari J. E.
Poutanen Juri
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