English

Complex Ionization and Velocity Structures in GX 340+0 X-ray Binary Revealed by XRISM

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2025-08-14 v1

Abstract

We present the first high-resolution XRISM spectrum of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GX 340+0, revealing unprecedented detail in its emission and absorption features. The spectrum reveals a rich and complex Fe XXV Heα\alpha line profile and a P-Cygni profile from Ca XX. We use the state-of-the-art spectral synthesis code Cloudy to model the emission and absorption features in detail. Our analysis reveals multi-ionization and multi-velocity structures, where the combination of broad (\sim 800 km/s) and narrow (\sim 360 km/s) line components, along with rest-frame and blueshifted emission and absorption lines, accounts for the observed line profile complexity. We identify a modest \sim 2735 km/s accretion disk wind exhibiting both absorption and emission features. We also detect a relativistic reflection feature in the spectrum, which we model using relxillNS - specifically designed to characterize X-ray reprocessing in accretion disks around neutron stars. Furthermore, we examine the detailed physics of the Fe XXV Heα\alpha complex, focusing on the forbidden-to-resonance line ratio under the influence of continuum pumping and optical depth effects.

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@article{arxiv.2508.09359,
  title  = {Complex Ionization and Velocity Structures in GX 340+0 X-ray Binary Revealed by XRISM},
  author = {Priyanka Chakraborty and Randall Smith and Lia Corrales and Elisa Costantini and Maria Diaz Trigo and Adam Foster and Caroline Kilbourne and Renee Ludlam and Takao Nakagawa and Frederick S. Porter and Ioanna Psaradaki and Hiromitsu Takahashi and Tahir Yaqoob and Sascha Zeegers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.09359},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

14 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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