Petrucci, P-O and Bianchi, S and Ponti, G and Ferreira, J and Marcel, G and Cangemi, F and Chakravorty, S and Clavel, M and Malzac, J and Rodriguez, J and Barnier, S and Belmont, R and Corbel, S and Coriat, M and Henri, G (2021) Expected evolution of disk wind properties along an X-ray binary outburst. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 649 .
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Abstract
Blueshifted X-ray absorption lines (preferentially from Fe XXV and Fe XXVI present in the 6-8 keV range) indicating the presence of massive hot disk winds in black hole (BH) X-ray binaries (XrB) are most generally observed during soft states. It has been recently suggested that the nondetection of such hot wind signatures in hard states could be due to the thermal instability of the wind in the ionization domain consistent with Fe XXV and Fe XXVI. Studying the wind thermal stability does require, however, a very good knowledge of the spectral shape of the ionizing spectral energy distribution (SED). In this paper, we discuss the expected evolution of the disk wind properties during an entire outburst by using the RXTE observations of GX 339-4 during its 2010-2011 outburst. While GX 339-4 never showed signatures of a hot wind in the X-rays, the dataset used is optimal for the analysis shown in this study. We computed the corresponding stability curves of the wind using the SED obtained with the jet-emitting disk model. We show that the disk wind can transit from stable to unstable states for Fe XXV and Fe XXVI ions on a day timescale. While the absence of wind absorption features in hard states could be explained by this instability, their presence in soft states seems to require changes in the wind properties (e.g., density) during the spectral transitions between hard and soft states. We propose that these changes could be partly due to the variation of the heating power release at the accretion disk surface through irradiation by the central X-ray source. The evolution of the disk wind properties discussed in this paper could be confirmed through the daily monitoring of the spectral transition of a high-inclination BH XrB. © P.-O. Petrucci et al. 2021.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| Publisher: | EDP Sciences |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to Authors |
| Keywords: | Stability; Stars; Thermodynamic stability; X ray absorption, Absorption features; Accretion disks; Spectral energy distribution; Spectral shapes; Spectral transitions; Thermal instabilities; Unstable state; Wind properties, Iron |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2021 10:23 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Aug 2021 10:23 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/69263 |
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