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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 503, Issue 1, Pages 614-624Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab475
Keywords
accretion; accretion discs; X-rays: binaries
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- STFC [ST/R000638/1]
- Programme National des Hautes Energies of CNRS/INSU
- INP
- IN2P3
- CEA
- CNES
- Academy of Finland [309308, 321722]
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [321722, 309308, 309308, 321722] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
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This study presents the results of the fast X-ray/infrared variability analysis of the black hole transient MAXI J1535-571, showing a strong asymmetric anticorrelation between X-ray and near-IR light curves. The detection of a near-IR QPO and simultaneous X-ray QPO at approximately the same frequency suggests a possible misalignment between the disc and jet in scenarios for fast IR variability.
We present the results regarding the analysis of the fast X-ray/infrared (IR) variability of the black hole transient MAXI J1535-571. The data studied in thiswork consist of two strictly simultaneous observations performed with XMM-Newton (X-rays: 0.7-10 keV), VLT/HAWK-I (K-s band, 2.2 mu m) andVLT/VISIR (Mand PAH2 2 bands, 4.85 and 11.88 mu m, respectively). The cross-correlation function between the X-ray and near-IR light curves shows a strong asymmetric anticorrelation dip at positive lags. We detect a near-IR QPO (2.5 sigma) at 2.07 +/- 0.09 Hz simultaneously with an X-ray QPO at approximately the same frequency (f(0) = 2.25 +/- 0.05). From the cross-spectral analysis, a lag consistent with zero was measured between the two oscillations. We also measure a significant correlation between the average near-IR and mid-IR fluxes during the second night, but find no correlation on short time-scales. We discuss these results in terms of the two main scenarios for fast IR variability (hot inflow and jet powered by internal shocks). In both cases, our preliminary modelling suggests the presence of a misalignment between the disc and jet.
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