Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-12-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Paper accepted for publication on A&A (macro included, 9 pages, 5 figures)
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20020012
We report on the results of a series of X-ray observations of the transient black hole candidate XTE J2012+381 during the 1998 outburst performed with the BeppoSAX satellite. The observed broad-band energy spectrum can be described with the superposition of an absorbed disk black body, an iron line plus a high energy component, modelled with either a power law or a Comptonisation tail. The source showed pronounced spectral variability between our five observations. While the soft component in the spectrum remained almost unchanged throughout our campaign, we detected a hard spectral tail which extended to 200 keV in the first two observations, but became barely detectable up to 50 keV in the following two. A further re-hardening is observed in the final observation. The transition from a hard to a soft and then back to a hard state occurred around an unabsorbed 0.1-200 keV luminosity of 10^38 erg/s (at 10 kpc). This indicates that state transitions in XTE 2012+281 are probably not driven only by mass accretion rate, but additional physical parameters must play a role in the evolution of the outburst.
Belloni Tomaso
Campana Sergio
Fiume Daniele Dal
Frontera Filippo
Israel Gian Luca
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