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FERMIGBM OBSERVATIONS OF V404 CYG DURING ITS 2015 OUTBURST
- Source :
- The Astrophysical Journal. 826:37
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- American Astronomical Society, 2016.
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Abstract
- V404 Cygni was discovered in 1989 by the $Ginga$ X-ray satellite during its only previously observed X-ray outburst and soon after confirmed as a black hole binary. On June 15, 2015, the Gamma Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) triggered on a new outburst of V404 Cygni. We present 13 days of GBM observations of this outburst including Earth occultation flux measurements, spectral and temporal analysis. The Earth occultation fluxes reached 30 Crab with detected emission to 100 keV and determined, via hardness ratios, that the source was in a hard state. At high luminosity, spectral analysis between 8 and 300 keV showed that the electron temperature decreased with increasing luminosity. This is expected if the protons and electrons are in thermal equilibrium during an outburst with the electrons cooled by the Compton scattering of softer seed photons from the disk. However, the implied seed photon temperatures are unusually high, suggesting a contribution from another source, such as the jet. No evidence of state transitions is seen during this time period. The temporal analysis reveals power spectra that can be modeled with two or three strong, broad Lorentzians, similar to the power spectra of black hole binaries in their hard state.
- Subjects :
- High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
Physics
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Compton scattering
FOS: Physical sciences
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Electron
01 natural sciences
Spectral line
Luminosity
Black hole
Space and Planetary Science
0103 physical sciences
Electron temperature
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Gamma-ray burst
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15384357
- Volume :
- 826
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....14103e691299e122f3c95b4d5dad2684
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/826/1/37