4U 1543-47 underwent its brightest outburst in 2021 after two decades of inactivity. During its decay phase, AstroSat conducted nine observations of the source spanning from July 1st to September 26th, 2021. The first three observations were performed with an offset of 40 arcmin with AstroSat/LAXPC, while the remaining six were on-axis observations. In this report, we present a comprehensive spectral analysis of the source as it was in the High/Soft state during the entire observation period. The source exhibited a disk-dominated spectra with a weak high-energy tail (power-law index ≥2.5) and a high inner disk temperature (∼0.84 keV). Modelling the disk continuum with non-relativistic and relativistic models, we find inner radius to be significantly truncated at >10Rg. Alternatively, to model the spectral evolution with the assumption that the inner disk is at the ISCO, it is necessary to introduce variation in the spectral hardening in the range ∼1.5-1.9.
@article{arxiv.2307.10831,
title = {Probing the soft state evolution of 4U 1543-47 during its 2021 outburst using AstroSat},
author = {Nazma Husain and Yash Bhargava and Akash Garg and Sneha Prakash Mudambi and Ranjeev Misra and Somasri Sen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.10831},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 10 pages, 7 figures and 2 tables