Discovery of a new flaring class in GRS 1915+105 using AstroSat
Discovery of a new flaring class in GRS 1915+105 using AstroSat
Highly variable Black Hole X-ray Binary (BHXB) GRS~1915+105 has shown many flaring classes when the source oscillates between the High Soft state (HS) and the Hard Intermediate state (HIMS) with a transition time of less than 10 s. The X-ray flux is anti-correlated with hardness ratio (HR2) during these X-ray flaring classes. We have analyzed Astrosat/LAXPC \& SXT data and report here a new X-ray flaring class named $\eta$ class when the source oscillates between two HS states (the power-law index is always greater than 4) with transition time around 50 s. The X-ray flux is correlated with hardness ratio. This class is quasi-regular, and we have detected High Frequency Quasi Periodic Oscillations (HFQPOs) around 70 Hz during this new flaring class. The accretion rate changes by a factor of three over the burst cycle. We report here the results of our extensive study of spectral and timing characteristics of this new class.
Ruchika Dhaka、JS Yadav、Ranjeev Misra、Pankaj Jain
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Ruchika Dhaka,JS Yadav,Ranjeev Misra,Pankaj Jain.Discovery of a new flaring class in GRS 1915+105 using AstroSat[EB/OL].(2025-04-01)[2025-07-16].https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00892.点此复制
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