The reflection component from Cygnus X-1 in the soft state measured by Nustar and Suzaku
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Tomsick, John A.
Nowak, Michael A.
Parker, Michael
Miller, Jon M.
Fabian, Andrew C.
Harrison, Fiona A.
Bachetti, Matteo
Barret, Didier
Boggs, Steven E.
Christensen, Finn E.
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December 2013
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Astrophysical Journal
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IOP Publishing
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Tomsick, John A., Michael A. Nowak, Michael Parker, Jon M. Miller, Andy C. Fabian, Fiona A. Harrison, Matteo Bachetti, et al. “The Reflection Component from Cygnus X-1 in the Soft State Measured by Nustar and Suzaku.” The Astrophysical Journal 780, no. 1 (December 13, 2013): 78. © 2014 The American Astronomical Society
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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 ~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° 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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