A Hard X-ray View on Scorpius X-1 with INTEGRAL: non-Thermal Emission ?
Abstract
We present here simultaneous INTEGRAL/RXTE observations of Sco X-1, and in particular a study of the hard X-ray emission of the source and its correlation with the position in the Z-track of the X-ray color-color diagram. We find that the hard X-ray (above about 30 keV) emission of Sco X-1 is dominated by a power-law component with a photon index of ~3. The flux in the power-law component slightly decreases when the source moves in the color-color diagram in the sense of increasing inferred mass accretion rate from the horizontal branch to the normal branch/flaring branch vertex. It becomes not significantly detectable in the flaring branch, where its flux has decreased by about an order of magnitude. These results present close analogies to the behavior of GX 17+2, one of so-called Sco-like Z sources. Finally, the hard power law in the spectrum of Sco X-1 does not show any evidence of a high energy cutoff up to 100 - 200 keV, strongly suggesting a non-thermal origin of this component.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0608335,
title = {A Hard X-ray View on Scorpius X-1 with INTEGRAL: non-Thermal Emission ?},
author = {T. Di Salvo and P. Goldoni and L. Stella and M. van der Klis and A. Bazzano and L. Burderi and R. Farinelli and F. Frontera and G. L. Israel and Méndez and F. Mirabel and N. R. Robba and P. Sizun and P. Ubertini and W. H. G. Lewin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0608335},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
5 pages including 3 figures. Accepted for publication by ApJ Letters