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THE REFLECTION COMPONENT FROM CYGNUS X-1 IN THE SOFT STATE MEASURED BY NuSTAR AND SUZAKU

Tomsick JA, Nowak MA, Parker M, Miller JM, Fabian AC, Harrison FA, Bachetti M, Barret D, Boggs SE, Christensen FE, Craig WW, Forster K, Fuerst F, Grefenstette BW, Hailey CJ, King AL, Madsen KK, Natalucci L, Pottschmidt K, Ross RR, Stern D, Walton DJ, Wilms J, Zhang WW (2014)

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Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2014

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Publisher: IOP PUBLISHING LTD

Book Volume: 780

Article Number: ARTN 78

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/780/1/78

Abstract

The black hole binary Cygnus X-1 was observed in late 2012 with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and Suzaku, providing spectral coverage over the similar to 1-300 keV range. The source was in the soft state with a multi-temperature blackbody, power law, and reflection components along with absorption from highly ionized material in the system. The high throughput of NuSTAR allows for a very high quality measurement of the complex iron line region as well as the rest of the reflection component. The iron line is clearly broadened and is well described by a relativistic blurring model, providing an opportunity to constrain the black hole spin. Although the spin constraint depends somewhat on which continuum model is used, we obtain a(*) > 0.83 for all models that provide a good description of the spectrum. However, none of our spectral fits give a disk inclination that is consistent with the most recently reported binary values for Cyg X-1. This may indicate that there is a > 13 degrees misalignment between the orbital plane and the inner accretion disk (i.e., a warped accretion disk) or that there is missing physics in the spectral models.

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APA:

Tomsick, J.A., Nowak, M.A., Parker, M., Miller, J.M., Fabian, A.C., Harrison, F.A.,... Zhang, W.W. (2014). THE REFLECTION COMPONENT FROM CYGNUS X-1 IN THE SOFT STATE MEASURED BY NuSTAR AND SUZAKU. Astrophysical Journal, 780(1). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/780/1/78

MLA:

Tomsick, John A., et al. "THE REFLECTION COMPONENT FROM CYGNUS X-1 IN THE SOFT STATE MEASURED BY NuSTAR AND SUZAKU." Astrophysical Journal 780.1 (2014).

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