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Timing analysis of 2S 1417-624 observed with NICER and Insight-HXMT 期刊论文 OAI收割
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 2020, 卷号: 491, 期号: 2, 页码: 1851-1856
作者: Ji, L.; Doroshenko, V; Santangelo, A.; Gungor, C.; Zhang, S.

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stars: magnetic field stars: neutron X-rays: binaries X-rays: individual: 2S 1417-624

Switches between accretion structures during flares in 4U 1901+03 期刊论文 OAI收割
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 2020, 卷号: 493, 期号: 4, 页码: 5680-5692
作者: Ji, L.; Ducci, L.; Santangelo, A.; Zhang, S.; Suleimanov, V

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stars: neutron X-rays: binaries X-rays: individual: 4U 1901+03

Introducing a special collection of papers in the Journal of High Energy Astrophysics on the Early Results of China's 1st X-ray Astronomy Satellite: Insight-HXMT 期刊论文 OAI收割
Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 2020, 卷号: 27, 页码: 51-52
作者: HXMT

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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Abstract: Insight-HXMT is the first Chinese X-ray astronomical mission, launched successfully on June 15, 2017, from China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Insight-HXMT was designed to have a broad energy coverage in X-rays, from 1-250 keV, with excellent timing and adequate energy resolution at soft X-rays, and the largest effective area at hard X-rays. This allows, in particular, to observe bright sources like X-ray binaries (XRBs) in their bright/outburst states with high cadence and high statistics at hard and soft X-rays at once. It was then expected that the Insight-HXMT mission will bring us new insights regarding the characteristics of several source classes. Examples include characterizing High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) and the outburst evolution of Low-Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs). For instance, in HMXB systems, the region around their Alfven radius that is responsible to determine whether accretion or propeller occurs, or the region around the NS magnetic pole where the intense X-rays are supposed to be produced are specially appealing targets of study. For the LMXBs, the evolution the outburst and the properties of the compact objects themselves are obvious priority targets for Insight-HXMT. Due to the broad coverage in energy, Insight-HXMT is specially well suited to study the influence of thermonuclear (type-I) X-ray bursts upon the surrounding environment.

Insight-HXMT observations of Swift J0243.6+6124: the evolution of RMS pulse fractions at super-Eddington luminosity 期刊论文 OAI收割
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020, 卷号: 497, 页码: 5498-5506
作者: HXMT

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stars: neutron pulsars: individual: Swift J0243.6+6124 X-rays: binaries Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Abstract: Based on Insight-HXMT data, we report on the pulse fraction evolution during the 2017-2018 outburst of the newly discovered first Galactic ultraluminous X-ray (ULX) source Swift J0243.6+6124. The pulse fractions of 19 observation pairs selected in the rising and fading phases with similar luminosity are investigated. The results show a general trend of the pulse fraction increasing with luminosity and energy at supercritical luminosity. However, the relative strength of the pulsation between each pair evolves strongly with luminosity. The pulse fraction in the rising phase is larger at luminosity below 7.71 × 10³⁸ erg s^-1, but smaller at above. A transition luminosity is found to be energy independent. Such a phenomenon is first confirmed by Insight-HXMT observations and we speculate that it may have relation with the radiation-pressure-dominated accretion disc.

An underlying clock in the extreme flip-flop state transitions of the black hole transient Swift J1658.2-4242 期刊论文 OAI收割
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020, 卷号: 641, 页码: A101
作者: HXMT

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accretion accretion disks black hole physics X-rays: binaries time Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Abstract:
Aims: Flip-flops are top-hat-like X-ray flux variations, which have been observed in some transient accreting black hole binary systems, and feature simultaneous changes in the spectral hardness and the power density spectrum (PDS). They occur at a crucial time in the evolution of these systems, when the accretion disc emission starts to dominate over coronal emission. Flip-flops remain a poorly understood phenomenon, so we aim to thoroughly investigate them in a system featuring several such transitions.
Methods: Within the multitude of observations of Swift J1658.2-4242 during its outburst in early 2018, we detected 15 flip-flops, enabling a detailed analysis of their individual properties and the differences between them. We present observations by XMM-Newton, NuSTAR, Astrosat, Swift, Insight-HXMT, INTEGRAL, and ATCA. We analysed their light curves, searched for periodicities, computed their PDSs, and fitted their X-ray spectra, to investigate the source behaviour during flip-flop transitions and how the interval featuring flip-flops differs from the rest of the outburst.
Results: The flip-flops of Swift J1658.2-4242 are of an extreme variety, exhibiting flux differences of up to 77% within 100 s, which is much larger than what has been seen previously. We observed radical changes in the PDS simultaneous with the sharp flux variations, featuring transitions between the quasi-periodic oscillation types C and A, which have never been observed before. Changes in the PDS are delayed, but more rapid than changes in the light curve. Flip-flops occur in two intervals within the outburst, separated by about two weeks in which these phenomena were not seen. Transitions between the two flip-flop states occurred at random integer multiples of a fundamental period of 2.761 ks in the first interval and 2.61 ks in the second. Spectral analysis reveals the high and low flux flip-flop states to be very similar, but distinct from intervals lacking flip-flops. A change of the inner temperature of the accretion disc is responsible for most of the flux difference in the flip-flops. We also highlight the importance of correcting for the influence of the dust scattering halo on the X-ray spectra.