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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 717, Issue 1, Pages 85-92Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/717/1/85
Keywords
binaries: close; radiation mechanisms: non-thermal; stars: individual (LS5039); X-rays: binaries
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- KAKENHI [20540231]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20540231] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The emission mechanism of the gamma-ray binary LS5039 in TeV, GeV, and X-ray energy bands is investigated. Observed light curves in LS5039 show that TeV and GeV fluxes anticorrelate, whereas TeV and X-ray fluxes correlate. However, such correlated variations have not yet been reasonably explained at this stage. Assuming that relativistic electrons are injected constantly at the location of the compact object as a point source and that they lose energy only by the inverse Compton (IC) process, we calculate gamma-ray spectra and light curves by the Monte Carlo method, including the full electromagnetic cascade process. Moreover, we calculated X-ray spectra and light curves by using the resultant electron distribution. As a result, we are able to qualitatively reproduce spectra and light curves observed by H. E. S. S., Fermi, and Suzaku for the inclination angle i = 30 degrees and the index of injected electron distribution p = 2.5. We conclude that TeV-GeV anticorrelation is due to anisotropic IC scattering and anisotropic gamma gamma absorption, and that TeV-X correlation is due to the dependence of IC cooling time on orbital phases. In addition, the constraint on the inclination angle implies that the compact object in LS5039 is a black hole.
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