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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 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 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 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…

Cygnus X-1 is a high-mass x-ray binary with a black hole compact object. It is normally extremely bright in hard x-rays and low energy gamma rays and resides in the canonical hard spectral state. Recently, however, Cyg X-1 made a transition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-04 G. L. Case , S. Baldridge , M. L. Cherry , A. Camero-Arranz , M. Finger , P. Jenke , C. A. Wilson-Hodge , V. Chaplin

Spectral variability in different energy bands of X-rays from Cyg X-1 in different states is studied with RXTE observations and time domain approaches. In the hard tail of energy spectrum above $\sim 10$ keV, average peak aligned shots are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Z. Liu , T. P. Li

We present the long term evolution of the timing properties of the black hole candidate Cygnus X-1 in the 0.002-128 Hz frequency range as monitored from 1998 to 2001 with the RXTE. The hard state power spectral density (PSD) is well modeled…

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

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

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 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 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 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 evidence for the presence of a weak compact jet during a soft X-ray state of Cygnus X-1. Very-high-resolution radio observations were taken with the VLBA, EVN and MERLIN during a hard-to-soft spectral state change, showing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Rushton , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , R. Campana , Y. Evangelista , Z. Paragi , T. J. Maccarone , G. G. Pooley , V. Tudose , R. P. Fender , R. E. Spencer , V. Dhawan

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

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 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

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

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

Building on results from previous studies of Cygnus~X-1, we analyze Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) data taken when the source was in the soft and transitional spectral states. We look at the power spectrum in the 0.01 -- 50 Hz range,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Axelsson , L. Borgonovo , S. Larsson
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