2015/07/10 by Fiamma Capitanio, Giovanni De Cesare, Capitanio, Fiamma +8
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #astro-ph.HE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1507.02941
Proceedings of the Swift: 10 Years of Discovery 2-5 December 2014 La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. to appear in Proceeding of Science [PoS(SWIFT 10)128]
arxiv created 2015/07/10 · openalex publication_date 2015/07/10 · arxiv updated 2015/07/13 · openalex created_date 2022/10/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We report on the analysis of the data collected by Swift, INTEGRAL and RXTE of the Black Hole Candidate (BHC) 4U 1630-47 during 3 consecutive outbursts occurred in 2006, 2008 and 2010, respectively. We show that, although a similar spectral and temporal behaviour in the energy range between 2-10 keV, these 3 outbursts present pronounced differences above 20 keV. In fact, the 2010 outburst extends at high energies without any detectable cut-off until 150-200 keV, while the other two previous outbursts, occurred on 2006 and 2008, are not detected at all above 20 keV. Moreover, the 2008 outburst does not show any detectable hard state in its final phases and even during the 2010 outburst, the final hard state shows some peculiarities rarely observed in other BHC. We also investigate on the peculiar huge variation of 4U 1630-47 hydrogen column density (NH) reported in the literature using the Swift/XRT data. In fact this instrument is one of the most suitable for this purpose thanks to its lower energy coverage.