The Ring of Fire: Constraining the jet power of Cygnus X-1 from its shocked shell.

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Sep 2006

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Chandra Proposal ID #08400682

Physics

Chandra Proposal Id #08400682

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We propose a 50ksec ACIS-I oservation of the shocked radio shell recently found around the black hole X-ray binary Cyg X-1. This shell has been interpreted as the swept up ISM that is pushed aside by a bubble of relativistic gas inflated by the jet of Cyg X-1. Detecting the shock in soft X-ray and measuring its temperature and emission measure will allow us to confirm the jet-origin of the shell and, for the first time, to unambiguously measure the average jet power of Cyg X-1. In order to properly model and subtract the diffuse emission from the dust scattering halo and the wings of the PSF we also propose a simultaneous 5ksec RXTE observation of the point source.

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