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Petr Hadrava
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The star HDE 226868 known as an optical counterpart of the black hole candidate Cyg X-1 has been observed in H_alpha region using spectrograph at Ondrejov 2-m telescope. The orbital parameters are determined from HeI-line by means of the authors method of Fourier disentangling. Preliminary results are also presented of disentangling the H_alpha-line into a P-Cyg profile of the (optical) primary and an emission profile of the circumstellar matter (and a telluric component).
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We present the results of the spectroscopic observations of HDE 226868, the optical counterpart to the black hole X-ray binary Cyg X-1, from 2001 to 2006. We analyze the variabilities of the two components in the complex H$alpha$ line: one P-Cygni shaped component which follows the motion of the supergiant and another emission component moving with an antiphase orbital motion relative to the supergiant, which is attributed to a focused-stellar wind. The results of KOREL disentangling of our spectra indicate that the focused stellar wind is responsible for the major part of the variability of the H$alpha$ emission line. The emission of the supergiant component had a small difference between the low/hard and high/soft states, while the focused wind component became strong in the low/hard state and weak in the high/soft state. The wind is nearly undisturbed by the X-ray photoionization during the low/hard state. However, during the high/soft state, the X-rays from the compact object could decelerate the line-driven wind and result in a high mass accretion rate, due to the effect of the X-ray photoionization. The X-ray illuminating could also change the temperature profile of the stellar wind and increase its temperature, and thus decrease the H$alpha$ emissivity of the wind, which could explain the H$alpha$ variabilities of Cyg X-1 during different X-ray states.
X-ray shots of Cyg X-1 in different energy bands and spectral states have been studied with PCA/RXTE observations. The detailed shot structure is obtained by superposing many shots with one millisecond time bin through aligning their peaks with an improved algorithm. In general, the shots are composed of a slow rise and fast decay. The shot structures in the different states are different. The duration of shot in the high state is shorter than that in the low and transition states. The shot profile in the high energy band is more asymmetric and narrower than that in the low energy band. The average hardness of shot is lower than that of steady emission in the transition and low states but higher than that in the high state. The time lags between the shots in higher and lower energy bands have been found in the different states. In transition states, the time lag is the largest among the different states of Cyg X-1, and it is the smallest in the low state. The implications of the observed shot features for shot models are discussed.
We present highlights from a series of four simultaneous Suzaku/RXTE observations of the black hole candidate Cyg X-1. We briefly summarize several key results from our decade long RXTE monitoring campaign. We then comment on challenges of analyzing the Suzaku data, i.e., improving the aspect correction beyond that of the existing tools, and quantitatively assessing pileup. All of our Suzaku observations (one, by design) occurred at or very near orbital phase 0 (superior conjunction), and hence show evolution in color-color diagrams due to X-ray absorption by material from the wind of the secondary. We present simple partial absorption models for this evolution. We then compare the Suzaku and RXTE data, and explicitly divide the Fe line region into narrow and broad components. Both are required for the Suzaku data, and are seen to be consistent with the RXTE data. These Suzaku observations occurred near historically hard, low flux states. We present fits of the broad band spectra with a simple phenomenological broken powerlaw model, as well as a more physically motivated Comptonization model. Whereas the former class of models described nearly all of the RXTE campaign better than any physical model, here the latter model is slightly more successful. The Comptonization model, however, exhibits little evidence for a soft disk component, which formally corresponds to a small, inner disk radius. Whether this is physical, due to unmodeled absorption, or is a calibration issue, remains an open question.
We studied the frequency resolved energy spectra of Cyg X--1 during the standard low (hard) spectral state using the data of the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer. We found that the relative amplitude of the reflection features -- the iron fluorescent line at ~6.5 keV and the smeared edge above ~7 keV -- decreases with the increasing frequency. In particular we found that the equivalent width of the iron line decreases above ~1 Hz and drops twice at frequency of ~10 Hz. An assumption that such behavior is solely due to a finite light crossing time of the reflecting media, would imply the characteristic size of the reflector ~5E8 cm, corresponding to ~150 Rg for a 10Msun black hole. Alternatively lack of high frequency oscillations of the reflected component may indicate that the short time scale, ~50-100 msec, variations of the primary continuum appear in geometrically different, likely inner, part of the accretion flow and give a rise to a significantly weaker, if any, reflected emission than the longer time scale events.
A linear dependence of the amplitude of broadband noise variability on flux for GBHC and AGN has been recently shown by Uttley & McHardy (2001). We present the long term evolution of this rms-flux-relation for Cyg X-1 as monitored from 1998-2002 with RXTE. We confirm the linear relationship in the hard state and analyze the evolution of the correlation for the period of 1996-2002. In the intermediate and the soft state, we find considerable deviations from the otherwise linear relationship. A possible explanation for the rms-flux-relation is a superposition of local mass accretion rate variations.
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