Suzaku observation of the black hole transient 4U1630-472: discovery of absorption lines

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Apr 2007

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Black Holes from Stars to Galaxies -- Across the Range of Masses. Edited by V. Karas and G. Matt. Proceedings of IAU Symposium #

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An outburst of the black hole transient 4U1630-472 was reported by the RXTE All Sky Monitor on 2005 December. From 2006 February 8 to March 23, we observed this source six times with each exposure of 21-23ks as part of the initial performance verification of Suzaku. Suzaku carries 4 sets of X-ray telescopes each with a focal-plane X-ray CCD camera (XIS, X-ray Imaging Spectrometer), together with a non-imaging Hard X-ray Detector (HXD) which covers the 10--600 keV energy band with the Si PIN photo-diodes and the GSO scintillation counters. During the observations in 2 months, the source signal was clearly detected up to 40keV with PIN, and its spectrum was found to bethe typical high/soft state with the dominant disk component and very weak hard tail of photon index ˜2.5. Based on the XIS spectra, the disk temperature was found to be 1.4keV at the first observation and gradually decreased to 1.2keV by keeping disk inner radius constant at ˜25km (distance and inclination are assumed to be 10kpc and 70 degree). Thus the bolometric disk luminosity changed from 2.8E38 erg/s to 1.6E38 erg/s. Importantly, with this Suzaku observation, we discovered narrow absorption lines at 6.7 keV and 7.0 keV, which correspond to H- and He-like iron K alpha, respectively. Through six observations, H-like iron K alpha was found to show almost constant equivalent width of 30eV, while the equivalent width of He-like iron K alpha increased from 8eV to 20 eV. The values of equivalent width correspond to iron column density of 1-4E17 /cm2 and 1E18/cm2 for He- and H-like iron, respectively, with an assumption of velocity dispersion of 500km/ s. We run xstar to have ratio of He- like to H-like iron for the disk spectra, and found that the xi-parameters should change from 5-7E4 to 3-4E4 from the first to the sixth observation. Based on these results, we will discuss geometry and origin of the absorption lines together with change of the accretion disk parameters.

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