Spectral Evolution of the Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources M82 X-1 and X-2

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作者
Brightman, Murray [1 ]
Walton, Dominic J. [2 ]
Xu, Yanjun [1 ]
Earnshaw, Hannah P. [1 ]
Harrison, Fiona A. [1 ]
Stern, Daniel [3 ]
Barret, Didier [4 ,5 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, Cahill Ctr Astrophys, 1216 East Calif Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Inst Astron, Madingley Rd, Cambridge CB3 OHA, England
[3] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
[4] Univ Toulouse, UPS OMP, IRAP, Toulouse, France
[5] CNRS, IRAP, 9 Ave Colonel Roche,BP 44346, F-31028 Toulouse 4, France
来源
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2020年 / 889卷 / 01期
基金
美国国家航空航天局;
关键词
MASS BLACK-HOLES; ACCRETION; VARIABILITY; DISCOVERY; PULSAR;
D O I
10.3847/1538-4357/ab629a
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
M82 hosts two well-known ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs). X-1, an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) candidate, and X-2, an ultraluminous X-ray pulsar. Here, we present a broadband X-ray spectral analysis of both sources based on 10 simultaneous observations made with Chandra and NuSTAR. Chandra provides the high spatial resolution to resolve the crowded field in the 0.5-8 keV band, and NuSTAR provides the sensitive hard X-ray spectral data, extending the bandpass of our study above 10 keV. These observations, taken in 2015-2016, cover a period of flaring from X-1, allowing us to study the spectral evolution of this source with luminosity. During four of these observations, X-2 was found to be at a low flux level, allowing an unambiguous view of the emission from X-1. We find that the broadband X-ray emission from X-1 is consistent with that seen in other ULXs observed in detail with NuSTAR, with a spectrum that includes a broadened disk-like component and a high-energy tail. We find that the luminosity of the disk scales with inner disk temperature as L proportional to T-3/2, contrary to expectations of a standard accretion disk and previous results. These findings rule out a thermal state for sub-Eddington accretion, and therefore do not support M82 X-1 as an IMBH candidate. We also find evidence that the neutral column density of the material in the line of sight increases with <CDATA <i , perhaps due to an increased mass outflow with accretion rate. For X-2, we do not find any significant spectral evolution, but we find the spectral parameters of the phase-averaged broadband emission are consistent with the pulsed emission at the highest X-ray luminosities.
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