Canonical Time Variations of X-Rays from Black Hole Candidates in the Low-Intensity State
Abstract
The power spectrum density functions of X-rays and the phase lags of the time variations between different energy X-rays were investigated for several black-hole candidates (Cyg X - 1, GX 339 - 4, and GS 2023 + 338) in their low-intensity state, to determine whether these density functions were different for different X-ray sources and at different occasions for the same source. The results suggest that, in these black hole candidates in the low-intensity state, the X-ray production process and the dynamics of accreting matter behavior are the same except for the processes which correspond to the Fourier frequencies below about 0.2 Hz.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- May 1992
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1992ApJ...391L..21M
- Keywords:
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- Black Holes (Astronomy);
- Light Curve;
- X Ray Stars;
- Accretion Disks;
- Interstellar Matter;
- Astrophysics;
- BLACK HOLE PHYSICS;
- X-RAYS: BURSTS;
- X-RAYS: STARS