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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
A low-luminosity soft state in the short-period black hole X-ray binary Swift J1753.5-0127
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 458, No. 2, Year 2016
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We present results from the spectral fitting of the candidate black hole X-ray binary Swift J1753.5-0127 in an accretion state previously unseen in this source. We fit the 0.7-78keV spectrum with a number of models, however the preferred model is one of a multitemperature disc with an inner disc temperature kTin=0.252 ± 0.003keV scattered into a steep power-law with photon index Γ=6.39+0.08-0.02 and an additional hard power-law tail (γ=1.79 ± 0.02). We report on the emergence of a strong disc-dominated component in the X-ray spectrum and we conclude that the source has entered the soft state for the first time in its ~10 yr prolonged outburst. Using reasonable estimates for the distance to the source (3kpc) and black hole mass (5M⊙), we find the unabsorbed luminosity (0.1-100keV) to be 0.60 percent of the Eddington luminosity, making this one of the lowest luminosity soft states recorded in X-ray binaries. We also find that the accretion disc extended towards the compact object during its transition from hard to soft, with the inner radius estimated to be Rin =28.0+0.7-0.4, Rg or ~ 12 Rg dependent on the boundary condition chosen, assuming the above distance and mass, a spectral hardening factor f=1.7 and a binary inclination i=55°. © 2016 The Authors.
Authors & Co-Authors
Shaw, Aarran W.
United Kingdom, Southampton
University of Southampton
Gandhi, Poshak R.
United Kingdom, Southampton
University of Southampton
Altamirano, Diego
United Kingdom, Southampton
University of Southampton
Uttley, Philip
Netherlands, Amsterdam
Universiteit Van Amsterdam
Tomsick, John A.
United States, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Charles, Philip A.
United Kingdom, Southampton
University of Southampton
Fürst, Felix S.
United States, Pasadena
California Institute of Technology
Rahoui, Farid
Germany, Garching Bei Munchen
European Southern Observatory
United States, Cambridge
Harvard University
Walton, Dominic James
United States, Pasadena
California Institute of Technology
Statistics
Citations: 22
Authors: 9
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1093/mnras/stw417
ISSN:
00358711