The giant outburst of 4U 0115+634 in 2011 with Suzaku and RXTE - Minimizing cyclotron line biases
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Título: | The giant outburst of 4U 0115+634 in 2011 with Suzaku and RXTE - Minimizing cyclotron line biases |
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Autor/es: | Kühnel, Matthias | Kreykenbohm, Ingo | Ferrigno, Carlo | Pottschmidt, Katja | Marcu-Cheatham, Diana M. | Fürst, Felix | Rothschild, Richard E. | Kretschmar, Peter | Klochkov, Dmitry | Hemphill, Paul | Hertel, Dominik | Müller, Sebastian | Sokolova-Lapa, Ekaterina | Oruru, Bosco | Grinberg, Victoria | Martínez Núñez, Silvia | Torrejon, Jose M. | Becker, Peter A. | Wolff, Michael T. | Ballhausen, Ralf | Schwarm, Fritz-Walter | Wilms, Jörn |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Astronomía y Astrofísica |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías |
Palabras clave: | X-rays: binaries | Pulsars: individual: 4U 0115+634 | Magnetic fields | Accretion, accretion disks |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Física Aplicada |
Fecha de publicación: | 13-feb-2020 |
Editor: | EDP Sciences |
Cita bibliográfica: | Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2020, 634: A99. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201935666 |
Resumen: | We present an analysis of X-ray spectra of the high-mass X-ray binary 4U 0115+634 as observed with Suzaku and RXTE in 2011 July, during the fading phase of a giant X-ray outburst. We used a continuum model consisting of an absorbed cutoff power law and an ad hoc Gaussian emission feature centered around 8.5 keV, which we attribute to cyclotron emission. Our results are consistent with a fundamental cyclotron absorption line centered at ∼10.2 keV for all observed flux ranges. At the same time we rule out significant influence of the 8.5 kev Gaussian on the parameters of the cyclotron resonant scattering feature, which are not consistent with the cyclotron line energies or the depths of previously reported flux-dependent descriptions. We also show that some continuum models can lead to artificial line-like residuals in the analyzed spectra, which are then misinterpreted as unphysically strong cyclotron lines. Specifically, our results do not support the existence of a previously claimed additional cyclotron feature at ∼15 keV. Apart from these features, we find for the first time evidence for a He-like Fe XXV emission line at ∼6.7 keV and weak H-like Fe XXVI emission close to ∼7.0 keV. |
Patrocinador/es: | We acknowledge funding by the European Space Agency under contract number C4000115860/15/NL/IB, by the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie under Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt grants 50OR0808, 50OR0905, 50OR1113, and 50OR1207, and by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. MTW is supported by the NASA Astrophysical Data Analysis Program and the Chief of Naval Research. VG is supported through the Margarethe von Wrangell fellowship by the ESF and the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg. SMN and JMT acknowledge Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (MICINN) through the grant ESP2016-76683-C3-1-R and ESP2017-85691-P, respectively. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/102829 |
ISSN: | 0004-6361 (Print) | 1432-0746 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/201935666 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © ESO 2020 |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935666 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - Astronomía y Astrofísica - Artículos de Revistas |
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