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28 March 2024
 
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Optical spectroscopy of flares from the black hole X-ray transient A0620-00 in quiescence
T. Shahbaz ; R.I. Hynes ; P.A. Charles ; C. Zurita ; J. Casares ; C.A. Haswell ; S. Araujo-Betancor ; C. Powell ;
Date 3 Aug 2004
Subject astro-ph
AffiliationIAC), R.I. Hynes (Texas), P.A. Charles (Southampton), C. Zurita (Lisbon), J. Casares (IAC), C.A. Haswell (Open), S. Araujo-Betancor (Southampton), C. Powell (Open
AbstractWe present a time-resolved spectrophotometric study of the optical variability in the quiescent soft X-ray transient A0620-00. Superimposed on the double-humped continuum lightcurve are the well known flare events which last tens of minutes. Some of the flare events that appear in the continuum lightcurve are also present in the emission line lightcurves. From the Balmer line flux and variations, we find that the persistent emission is optically thin. During the flare event at phase 1.15 the Balmer decrement dropped suggesting either a significant increase in temperature or that the flares are more optically thick than the continuum. The data suggests that there are two HI emitting regions, the accretion disc and the accretion stream/disc region, with different Balmer decrements. The orbital modulation of H$alpha$ with the continuum suggests that the steeper decrement is most likely associated with the stream/disc impact region. We construct Doppler images of the H$alpha$ and H$eta$ emission lines. Apart from showing enhanced blurred emission at the region where the stream impacts the accretion disc, the maps also show significant extended structure from the opposite side of the disc. The trailed spectra show characteristic S-wave features that can be interpreted in the context of an eccentric accretion disc (abridged).
Source arXiv, astro-ph/0408057
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