We report a discovery of low-frequency quasi periodic oscillation at 0.3-0.7 Hz in the power spectra of the accreting black hole GRS1739-278 in the hard-intermediate state during its 2014 outburst based on the NuSTAR and Swift/XRT data. The QPO frequency strongly evolved with the source flux during the NuSTAR observation. The source spectrum became softer with rising QPO frequency and simultaneous increasing of the power-law index and decreasing of the cut-off energy. In the power spectrum, a prominent harmonic is clearly seen together with the main QPO peak. The fluxes in the soft and the hard X-ray bands are coherent, however, the coherence drops for the energy bands separated by larger gaps. The phase-lags are generally positive (hard) in the 0.1-3 Hz frequency range, and negative below 0.1 Hz. The accretion disc inner radius estimated with the relativistic reflection spectral model appears to be Rin<7.3Rg. In the framework of the relativistic precession model, in order to satisfy the constraints from the observed QPO frequency and the accretion disc truncation radius, a massive black hole with MBH≈100M⊙ is required.
@article{arxiv.1810.04451,
title = {Studying temporal variability of GRS1739-278 during the 2014 outburst},
author = {Ilya A. Mereminskiy and Andrey N. Semena and Sergey D. Bykov and Ekaterina V. Filippova and Alexander A. Lutovinov and Juri Poutanen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.04451},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
15 pages, 12 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS