Quasi-periodic oscillations and reflection feature evolution in 4U 1630-47 observed with Insight-HXMT
Abstract
The Galactic black hole (BH) X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 went into a new outburst in 2021 after 600 days from its 2020 outburst. We perform a detailed analysis of quasi-periodic oscillations and spectral evolutions during its 2021 outburst based on \textit{Insight}-HXMT observations. The main science aims to study the reflection features evolution of this accreting black hole using the observations of detecting quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and quasi-regular modulations (QRMs). The QPOs frequencies evolve from Hz, and QRMs have low frequencies around 0.05 - 0.07 Hz. The reflection fraction varies during the outburst and has a positive correlation with the hardness ratio when QPOs are detected. The centroid frequency of QPOs is anti-correlated to the reflection fraction. This is consistent with the prediction of precessing inner flow model and provides evidence for a geometrical origin of QPOs. The centroid frequency of QRMs also shows an anti-correlation to the reflection fraction, but the hardness ratio shows no relation to the reflection fraction during the period. We suggest that QRMs may have a different origin from QPOs and be caused by instabilities in the corona.
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@article{arxiv.2506.19285,
title = {Quasi-periodic oscillations and reflection feature evolution in 4U 1630-47 observed with Insight-HXMT},
author = {Jiashi Chen and Wei Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.19285},
year = {2025}
}
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12 pages, 8 figures and 2 tables, accept for the publication in ApJ