Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer Observation of Cygnus X-1. II. Timing Analysis

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Jan 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999apj...510..874n&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 510, Issue 2, pp. 874-891.

Physics

189

Accretion, Accretion Disks, Black Hole Physics, Stars: Individual: Constellation Name: Cygnus X-1, X-Rays: Stars

Scientific paper

We present timing analysis for a Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observation of Cygnus X-1 in its hard/low state. This was the first RXTE observation of Cyg X-1 taken after it transited back to this state from its soft/high state. RXTE's large effective area, superior timing capabilities, and ability to obtain long, uninterrupted observations have allowed us to obtain measurements of the power spectral density (PSD), coherence function, and Fourier time lags to a decade lower in frequency and 0.5 decade higher in frequency than typically was achieved with previous instruments. Notable aspects of our observations include a weak 0.005 Hz feature in the PSD coincident with a coherence recovery; a ``hardening'' of the high-frequency PSD with increasing energy; a broad frequency range measurement of the coherence function, revealing rollovers from unity coherence at both low and high frequency; and an accurate determination of the Fourier time lags over 2.5 decades in frequency. As has been noted in previous similar observations, the time delay is approximately proportional to f^-0.7, and at a fixed Fourier frequency the time delay of the hard X-rays compared to the softest energy channel tends to increase logarithmically with energy. Curiously, the 0.01-0.2 Hz coherence between the highest and the lowest energy bands is actually slightly greater than the coherence between the second highest and the lowest energy bands. We carefully describe all of the analysis techniques used in this paper, and wemake comparisons of the data to general theoretical expectations. In a companion paper, we makespecific comparisons to a Compton corona model that we have successfully used to describe the energy spectral data from this observation.

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