TY - JOUR
T1 - Three spectral states of the disk X-ray emission of the black-hole candidate 4U 1630-47
AU - Abe, Yukiko
AU - Fukazawa, Yasushi
AU - Kubota, Aya
AU - Kasama, Daisuke
AU - Makishima, Kazuo
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - We studied a time history of X-ray spectral states of a black-hole candidate, 4U 1630-47, utilizing data from a number of monitoring observations with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer over 1996-2004. These observations covered five outbursts of 4U 1630-47, and recorded typical features of the high/soft states. The spectra in the high/soft states can be classified into three states. The first state is explained by a concept of the standard accretion disk picture. The second appears in the very high state, where a dominant hard component is seen and the disk radius apparently becomes too small. These phenomena are explained by the effect of inverse Compton scattering of disk photons, as shown by Kubota, Makishima, and Ebisawa (2001, ApJ, 560, L147) for GRO J1655-40. The third shows that the disk luminosity varies in proportion to Tin2, rather than Tin4, where T in is the inner-disk temperature. This state suggests an optically-thick and advection-dominated slim disk, as given by Kubota and Makishima (2004, ApJ, 601, 428) for XTE J1550-564. The second and third states appear, with good reproducibility, when Tin and the total X-ray luminosity are higher than 1.2 keV and ∼ 2.5 × 1038(D/10 kpc)2[cosθ/(1/√3)]-1 ergs-1, respectively, where D is the distance to the object and θ is the inclination angle to the disk. The results suggest that these spectral states commonly appear among black-hole binaries under high accretion rates.
AB - We studied a time history of X-ray spectral states of a black-hole candidate, 4U 1630-47, utilizing data from a number of monitoring observations with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer over 1996-2004. These observations covered five outbursts of 4U 1630-47, and recorded typical features of the high/soft states. The spectra in the high/soft states can be classified into three states. The first state is explained by a concept of the standard accretion disk picture. The second appears in the very high state, where a dominant hard component is seen and the disk radius apparently becomes too small. These phenomena are explained by the effect of inverse Compton scattering of disk photons, as shown by Kubota, Makishima, and Ebisawa (2001, ApJ, 560, L147) for GRO J1655-40. The third shows that the disk luminosity varies in proportion to Tin2, rather than Tin4, where T in is the inner-disk temperature. This state suggests an optically-thick and advection-dominated slim disk, as given by Kubota and Makishima (2004, ApJ, 601, 428) for XTE J1550-564. The second and third states appear, with good reproducibility, when Tin and the total X-ray luminosity are higher than 1.2 keV and ∼ 2.5 × 1038(D/10 kpc)2[cosθ/(1/√3)]-1 ergs-1, respectively, where D is the distance to the object and θ is the inclination angle to the disk. The results suggest that these spectral states commonly appear among black-hole binaries under high accretion rates.
KW - Accretion, accretion disks
KW - Black hole physics
KW - Stars: individual (4U 1630-47)
KW - X-rays: stars
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U2 - 10.1093/pasj/57.4.629
DO - 10.1093/pasj/57.4.629
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:25144432921
VL - 57
SP - 629
EP - 641
JO - Publication of the Astronomical Society of Japan
JF - Publication of the Astronomical Society of Japan
SN - 0004-6264
IS - 4
ER -