Evidence for a dynamic corona in the short-term time lags of black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070

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Bollemeijer, Niek [1 ]
Uttley, Phil [1 ]
Basak, Arkadip [1 ]
Ingram, Adam [2 ,3 ]
van den Eijnden, Jakob [4 ]
Alabarta, Kevin [5 ]
Altamirano, Diego [6 ]
Arzoumanian, Zaven [7 ]
Buisson, Douglas J. K.
Fabian, Andrew C. [8 ]
Ferrara, Elizabeth [7 ,9 ]
Gendreau, Keith [10 ,11 ]
Homan, Jeroen [12 ]
Kara, Erin [13 ]
Markwardt, Craig [7 ]
Remillard, Ronald A. [13 ]
Sanna, Andrea [14 ]
Steiner, James F. [15 ]
Tombesi, Francesco [9 ,11 ,16 ,17 ,18 ]
Wang, Jingyi [13 ]
Wang, Yanan [6 ,19 ]
Zoghbi, Abderahmen [9 ,20 ]
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[1] Astron Pannekoek Inst Anton, Sci Pk 904, NL-1098 NH Amsterdam, Netherlands
[2] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Astrophys, Denys Wilkinson Bldg,Keble Rd, Oxford OX1 3RH, England
[3] Newcastle Univ, Sch Math Stat & Phys, Herschel Bldg, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, Tyne & Wear, England
[4] Univ Warwick, Dept Phys, Coventry CV4 7AL, W Midlands, England
[5] New York Univ Abu Dhabi, Ctr Astro Particle & Planetary Phys, Abu Dhabi 129188, U Arab Emirates
[6] Univ Southampton, Sch Phys & Astron, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England
[7] NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Xray Astrophys Lab, Code 662, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[8] Univ Cambridge, Inst Astron, Madingley Rd, Cambridge CB3 0HA, England
[9] Univ Maryland, Dept Astron, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[10] NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, CRESST 2, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[11] NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[12] Eureka Sci Inc, 2452 Delmer St, Oakland, CA 94602 USA
[13] MIT, MIT Kavli Inst Astrophys & Space Res, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[14] Univ Cagliari, Dipartimento Fis, SP Monserrato Sestu Km 0-7, I-09042 Monserrato, Italy
[15] Harvard & Smithsonian, Ctr Astrophys, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[16] Tor Vergata Univ Rome, Phys Dept, Via Ric Sci 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[17] INAF Astron Observ Rome, Via Frascati 33, I-00040 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy
[18] INFN Rome Tor Vergata, Via Ric Sci 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[19] Chinese Acad Sci, Natl Astron Observ, 20A Datun Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
[20] NASA GSFC, HEASARC, Code 6601, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
accretion; accretion discs; black hole physics; X-rays: binaries; X-rays: individual: MAXI J1820+070; ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; SHAPED RADIO-SOURCES; POST-NEWTONIAN EVOLUTION; FINAL-PARSEC PROBLEM; DATA SET SEARCH; MERGER RATES; GALAXY; SIGNATURES; ACCRETION; MASS;
D O I
10.1093/mnras/stad3912
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
In X-ray observations of hard state black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs), rapid variations in accretion disc and coronal power-law emission are correlated and show Fourier-frequency-dependent time lags. On short (similar to 0.1 s) time-scales, these lags are thought to be due to reverberation and therefore may depend strongly on the geometry of the corona. Low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are variations in X-ray flux that have been suggested to arise because of geometric changes in the corona, possibly due to general relativistic Lense-Thirring precession. Therefore, one might expect the short-term time lags to vary on the QPO time-scale. We performed novel spectral-timing analyses on Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR observations of the BHXRB MAXI J1820+070 during the hard state of its outburst in 2018 to investigate how the short-term time lags between a disc-dominated and a coronal power-law-dominated energy band vary on different time-scales. Our method can distinguish between variability due to the QPO and broad-band noise, and we find a linear correlation between the power-law flux and lag amplitude that is strongest at the QPO frequency. We also introduce a new method to resolve the QPO signal and determine the QPO phase dependence of the flux and lag variations, finding that both are very similar. Our results are consistent with a geometric origin of QPOs, but also provide evidence for a dynamic corona with a geometry varying in a similar way over a broad range of time-scales, not just the QPO time-scale.
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