X-Ray Spectral Variability in Cygnus X-1

Details X-Ray Spectral Variability in Cygnus X-1 X-Ray Spectral Variability in Cygnus X-1

2004-05-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0405246v1

Astrophys.J. 611 (2004) 1084-1090

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 3 figures, accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/422209

Spectral variability in different energy bands of X-rays from Cyg X-1 in different states is studied with RXTE observations and time domain approaches. In the hard tail of energy spectrum above $\sim 10$ keV, average peak aligned shots are softer than the average steady emission and the hardness ratio decreases when the flux increases during a shot for all states. In regard to a soft band lower $\sim 10$ keV, the hardness in the soft state varies in an opposite way: it peaks when the flux of the shot peaks. For the hard and transition states, the hardness ratio in respect to a soft band during a shot is in general lower than that of the steady component and a sharp rise is observed at about the shot peak. For the soft state, the correlation coefficient between the intensity and hardness ratio in the hard tail is negative and decreases monotonically as the timescale increases from 0.01 s to 50 s, which is opposite to that in regard to a soft band. For the hard and transition states, the correlation coefficients are in general negative and have a trend of decrease with increasing timescale.

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