- Author
- Year
- 2012
- Title
- The ubiquity of the rms-flux relation in black hole X-ray binaries
- Journal
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Volume
- 422
- Pages (from-to)
- 2620-2631
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science (FNWI)
- Institute
- Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
- Abstract
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We have investigated the short-term linear relation between the rms variability and the flux in 1961 observations of nine black hole X-ray binaries. The rms-flux relation for the 1-10 Hz range is ubiquitously observed in any observation with good variability signal-to-noise ratio (>3 per cent, 1-10 Hz fractional rms). This concurs with results from a previous study of Cygnus X-1, and extends detection of the rms-flux relation to a wider range of states. We find a strong dependence of the flux intercept of the rms-flux relation on source state; as the source transitions from the hard state into the hard intermediate state, the intercept becomes strongly positive. We find little evidence for flux dependence of the broad-band noise within the power spectra shape, excepting a small subset of observations from one object in an anomalous soft state. We speculate that the ubiquitous linear rms-flux relation in the broad-band noise of this sample, representing a range of different states and objects, indicates that its formation mechanism is an essential property of the luminous accretion flow around black holes.
- URL
- go to publisher's site
- Language
- English
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.381944
- Downloads
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