English
Related papers

Related papers: RXTE Observation of Cygnus X-1 In Its High State

200 papers

We report the results from our timing analysis of 15 RXTE observations of Cygnus X-1 throughout its 1996 spectral transitions. The entire period can be divided into 3 distinct phases: (1) transition from the hard to soft state, (2) soft…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Wei Cui , S. N. Zhang , W. Focke , J. Swank

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 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 present the results of the analysis of the broad-band spectrum of Cygnus X-1 from 3.0 to 200 keV, using data from a 10 ksec observation by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. The spectrum can be well described phenomenologically by an…

We present timing analysis for a Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observation of Cygnus X-1 in its hard/low state. This was the first RXTE observation of Cyg X-1 taken after it transited back to this state from its soft/high state. RXTE's large…

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

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 the time variability characteristics of Cygnus X-1 in its two spectral states. The observations were carried out using the Pointed Proportional Counters (PPC) on-board the Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment (IXAE). The details of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. R. Rao , P. C. Agrawal , B. Paul

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

(abbreviated abstract) We present the long term spectral evolution of the Galactic black hole candidate Cygnus X-1 in the X-rays and at 15GHz using ~200 pointed observations taken between early 1999 and late 2004 with RXTE and the Ryle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Wilms , M. A. Nowak , K. Pottschmidt , G. G. Pooley , S. Fritz

We report the results of an observation of Cygnus X-1 with INTEGRAL, that we combine with simultaneous radio observations with the Ryle telescope. Both spectral and variability properties of the source indicate that Cygnus X-1 was in an…

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…

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 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 X-ray/gamma-ray spectra of Cyg X-1 observed during the transition from the hard to the soft state and in the soft state by ASCA, RXTE and OSSE in 1996 May and June. The spectra consist of a dominant soft component below ~2 keV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Gierlinski , A. A. Zdziarski , J. Poutanen , P. S. Coppi , K. Ebisawa , W. N. Johnson

We present results of RXTE observations of the X-ray source Cyg X-2 during 1996-1999. Its power density spectra in the 0.1-128-Hz band are fitted by a model that takes into account the power-law spectral behavior at frequencies below and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergey Kuznetsov

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 present a detailed spectral and timing analysis of Cygnus X-1 with multi-epoch observations, during $2016$ to $2019$, by SXT and LAXPC on-board AstroSat. We model the spectra in broad energy range of $0.5\!-\!70.0\,\rm{keV}$ to study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 Ankur Kushwaha , V. K. Agrawal , Anuj Nandi

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 report the first analysis of data from AstroSat/LAXPC observations of Cygnus X-1 in January 2016. LAXPC spectra reveals that the source was in the canonical hard state, represented by a prominent thermal Comptonization component having a…

‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›