A Hard Tail in the Broad Band Spectrum of the Dipper XB 1254-690

Details A Hard Tail in the Broad Band Spectrum of the Dipper XB 1254-690 A Hard Tail in the Broad Band Spectrum of the Dipper XB 1254-690

2000-10-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0010155v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 3 figures, Accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/319010

We report on the results of spectral analysis of the dipping source XB 1254-690 observed by the BeppoSAX satellite. We find that the X-ray dips are not present during the BeppoSAX observation, in line with recent RXTE results. The broad band (0.1-100 keV) energy spectrum is well fitted by a three-component model consisting of a multicolor disk blackbody with an inner disk temperature of ~0.85 keV, a comptonized spectrum with an electron temperature of ~2 keV, and a bremsstrahlung at a temperature of ~20 keV. Adopting a distance of 10 kpc and taking into account a spectral hardening factor of ~1.7 (because of electron scattering which modifies the blackbody spectrum emitted by the disk) we estimated that the inner disk radius is $R_{\rm in} \sqrt{\cos i} \sim 11$ km, where i is the inclination angle of the system with respect to the line of sight. The comptonized component could originate in a spherical corona or boundary layer, surrounding the neutron star, with optical depth ~19. The bremsstrahlung emission, contributing ~4% of the total luminosity, probably originates in an extended accretion disk corona with radius $\sim 10^{10}$ cm. In this scenario we calculated that the optical depth of this region is ~0.71 and its mean electron density is $N_e \sim 2.7 \times 10^{14}$ cm$^{-3}$. This last component might also be present in other low mass X-ray binaries, but, because of its low intrinsic luminosity, it is not easily observable. We also find an absorption edge at ~1.27 keV with an optical depth of ~0.15. Its energy could correspond to the L-edge of Fe XVII, or K-edge of Ne X or neutral Mg.

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