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Temporal and spectral properties of X-ray rapid variability of Cyg X-1 are studied by an approach of correlation analysis in the time domain on different time scales. The correlation coefficients between the total intensity in 2-60 keV and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. P. Li , Y. X. Feng , L. Chen

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 reported previously that for Cyg X-1 there is a settling period following the transition from hard to soft state (astro-ph/9610071). During the transiton, The low energy spectrum (below ~10 keV) varies significantly from observation to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 W. Cui , S. N. Zhang , K. Jahoda , W. Focke , J. Swank , W. A. Heindl , R. E. Rothschild

We have used observations of Cygnus X-1 from the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) and BeppoSAX to study the variation in the MeV gamma-ray emission between the hard and soft spectral states, using spectra that cover the energy range 20…

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 report continuous monitoring of Cygnus X-1 in the 1.3 to 200 keV band using ASM/RXTE and BATSE/CGRO for about 200 days from 1996 February 21 to 1996 early September. During this period Cygnus X-1 experienced a hard-to-soft and then a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. N. Zhang , W. Cui , B. A. Harmon , W. S. Paciesas , R. E. Remillard , J. van Paradijs

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

Orbital variability has been found in the X-ray hardness of the black hole candidate Cygnus X-1 during the soft/high X-ray state using light curves provided by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer's All Sky Monitor. We are able to set broad…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Bram Boroson , Saeqa Dil Vrtilek

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 the results from the RXTE observations of Cygnus X-1 in its high state. In the energy range of 2-200 keV, the observed X-ray spectrum can be described by a model consisting of a soft blackbody component and a broken power-law…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 W. Cui , W. A. Heindl , R. E. Rothschild , S. N. Zhang , K. Jahoda , W. Focke

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…

X-ray variability of the microquasar XTE J1550-564 is studied with time domain techniques for the data from the RXTE/PCA observation in September 8, 1998. The 2--60 keV averaged shot is obtained from superposing shots with one millisecond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Y. X. Wu , C. Z. Liu , T. P. Li

For the very first time, we report the high frequency analysis of Cyg X-1 up to hard X-ray using SPI on-board INTEGRAL. After analyzing the possible contribution fromthe background, and using INTEGRAL archive from March 2005 to May 2008,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Cabanac , J. -P. Roques , E. Jourdain

We analyzed a large number of RXTE/PCA observations of Cyg X-1 in the hard and soft spectral states with total exposure time of ~190 and ~10 ksec respectively and time resolution better than ~250us in order to investigate its variability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 M. Revnivtsev , M. Gilfanov , E. Churazov

We study the soft X-ray variability of Cygnus X-3. By combining data from the All-Sky Monitor and Proportional Counter Array instruments on the RXTE satellite with EXOSAT Medium Energy (ME) detector observations, we are able to analyse the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Magnus Axelsson , Stefan Larsson , Linnea Hjalmarsdotter

X-ray shots of Cyg X-1 in different energy bands and spectral states have been studied with PCA/RXTE observations. The detailed shot structure is obtained by superposing many shots with one millisecond time bin through aligning their peaks…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. X. Feng , T. P. Li , L. Chen

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 present the analysis of two long, quasi-uninterrupted RXTE observations of Cygnus X-1 that span several days within a 10 d interval. The spectral characteristics during this observation cover the region where previous observations have…

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

Long-term X-ray variability of the black hole binary, Cygnus X-1, was studied with five years of MAXI data from 2009 to 2014, which include substantial periods of the high/soft state, as well as the low/hard state. In each state, Normalized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Juri Sugimoto , Tatehiro Mihara , Shunji Kitamoto , Masaru Matsuoka , Mutsumi Sugizaki , Hitoshi Negoro , Satoshi Nakahira , Kazuo Makishima
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