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We study the long term evolution of the relationship between the root mean square (rms) variability and flux (the ``rms-flux relation'') for the black hole Cygnus X-1 as monitored from 1996 to 2003 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 T. Gleissner , J. Wilms , K. Pottschmidt , P. Uttley , M. A. Nowak , R. Staubert

We have investigated the short term linear relation between the rms variability and the flux in 1,961 observations of 9 black hole X-ray binaries. The rms-flux relation for the 1-10 Hz range is ubiquitously observed in any observation with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 L. M. Heil , S. Vaughan , P. Uttley

We report the first detection of a linear correlation between rms variability amplitude and flux in the Ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 5408 X-1. The rms-flux relation has previously been observed in several Galactic black hole X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 L. M. Heil , S. Vaughan

The rms (root mean square) variability is the parameter for understanding the emission temporal properties of X-ray binaries (XRBs) and active galactic nuclei (AGN). The rms-flux relation with Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) data for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. J. Lei , L. M. Song , J. L. Qu , C. M. Zhang

Standard shot-noise models, which seek to explain the broadband noise variability that characterises the X-ray lightcurves of X-ray binaries and active galaxies, predict that the power spectrum of the X-ray lightcurve is stationary (i.e.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Philip Uttley , Ian M. McHardy

We have studied the X-ray variability patterns and correlations of the radio and X-ray fluxes in all spectral states of Cyg X-1 using X-ray data from RXTE/ASM, CGRO/BATSE, and Swift/BAT. In the hard state, the dominant spectral variability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Gerald K. Skinner , Guy G. Pooley , Piotr Lubinski

A linear relation between absolute rms variability and flux in X-ray observations of compact accreting sources has recently been identified. Such a relation suggests that X-ray lightcurves are non-linear and composed of a lognormal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Poshak Gandhi

We have carried out a timing analysis of Cyg X-1 and GRS 1915+105 using more than 5 years worth of data from the All Sky Monitor (ASM) on board RXTE. We have obtained for the first time power density spectra, colour-colour and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Reig , I. Papadakis , N. D. Kylafis

Using data from the All-Sky Monitor aboard the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), we found that the 1.5-12 keV X-ray count rate of Cyg X-1 is, on time scales from 90 seconds to at least 10 days, strongly correlated with the spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Linqing Wen , Wei Cui , Hale V. Bradt

We present an analysis of all observations of Cygnus X-1 by the BATSE (20-300 keV) and by ASM (1.5-12 keV) until 2002 June, including 1200 days of simultaneous data. We find a number of correlations between fluxes and hardnesses in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-30 Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Juri Poutanen , William S. Paciesas , Linqing Wen

We present the rms-intensity diagram for black hole transients. Using observations taken with the Rossi X-ray timing explorer we study the relation between the root mean square (rms) amplitude of the variability and the net count-rate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Muñoz-Darias , S. Motta , T. M. Belloni

We present temporal and spectral results from monitoring Cygnus X-1 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) in 1998 and 1999. We concentrate on the long term evolution of the hard state timing properties, comparing it to the 1996 soft…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Pottschmidt , J. Wilms , R. Staubert , M. A. Nowak , W. A. Heindl , D. M. Smith

We present a study of the long-term variability of Cyg X-1 using data from the RXTE/ASM and the RXTE/PCA during the time between the two soft states of 1996 and 2001/2002. This period has been characterized by many short ASM flaring…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Benlloch , K. Pottschmidt , J. Wilms , M. A. Nowak , T. Gleissner , G. G. Pooley

We present the long term evolution of the frequency-dependent X-ray time lags of the black hole candidate Cygnus X-1 as measured in 1996 and 1998 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). Lag spectra measured during the 1996 June soft…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Pottschmidt , J. Wilms , M. A. Nowak , W. A. Heindl , D. M. Smith , R. Staubert

Aims. We investigate observations of the X-ray binary Cygnus X-1 with unusually high hardness and low flux. In particular, we study the characteristic frequencies seen in the PDS and the hardness-flux correlation within and between these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-25 M. Axelsson , L. Hjalmarsdotter , L. Borgonovo , S. Larsson

We present the most extensive analysis of Fourier-based X-ray timing properties of the black hole binary Cygnus X-1 to date, based on 12 years of bi-weekly monitoring with RXTE from 1999 to 2011. Our aim is a comprehensive study of timing…

Long time scale radio-X-ray correlations in black holes during the hard state have been found in many sources and there seems to emerge a universal underlying relationship which quantitatively describes this behavior. Although it would…

We present first results from the spectral and temporal analysis of an RXTE monitoring campaign of the black hole candidate Cygnus X-1 in 1999. The timing properties of this hard state black hole show considerable variability, even though…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Pottschmidt , J. Wilms , R. Staubert , M. A. Nowak , J. B. Dove , W. A. Heindl , D. M. Smith

We have analyzed approximately 1100 days of Cygnus X-1 hard X-ray data obtained with BATSE to study its rapid variability. We find for the first time correlations between the slope of the spectrum and the hard X-ray intensity, and between…

We show that the rms-flux relation recently discovered in the X-ray light curves of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and X-ray binaries (XRBs) implies that the light curves have a formally non-linear, exponential form, provided the rms-flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Uttley , I. M. McHardy , S. Vaughan
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