Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-10-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
18 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/308524
Using the data from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), we report the different energy dependence of the variability of the four persistent hard X-ray sources in the low-hard state: Cygnus X-1, GX 339-4, GRS 1758-258 and 1E 1740.7-2942. Cygnus X-1 is found to have a flatter power density spectrum (PDS) shape at higher energies. The other three sources have energy independent PDS shapes. The energy dependence of the overall variability (the integrated rms amplitude) varies from source to source and from observation to observation. 1E~1740.7-2942, for example, has a variability generally increasing with energy while GX 339-4 has a decreasing variability. A general trend is found in the four sources that the integrated rms amplitude anti-correlates with the X-ray flux. We compare these distinct energy dependent behaviors with several emission models. None of the models can fully explain all the features that we have found.
Böttcher Markus
Liang Edison P.
Lin Dacheng
Smith Ian A.
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