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FERMIGBM OBSERVATIONS OF V404 CYG DURING ITS 2015 OUTBURST

Authors :
Valerie Connaughton
Mark H. Finger
Péter Veres
Jeroen Homan
M. Hui
Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge
Eric Burns
Michael S. Briggs
Peter Jenke
Source :
The Astrophysical Journal. 826:37
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
American Astronomical Society, 2016.

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.

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