THE SOFT STATE OF CYGNUS X-1 OBSERVED WITH NuSTAR: A VARIABLE CORONA AND A STABLE INNER DISK

We present a multi-epoch hard X-ray analysis of Cygnus X-1 in its soft state based on four observations with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). Despite the basic similarity of the observed spectra, there is clear spectral variability between epochs. To investigate this variability,...

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Main Authors: Walton, D. J. (Author), Tomsick, J. A. (Author), Madsen, K. K. (Author), Barret, D. (Author), Boggs, S. E. (Author), Christensen, F. E. (Author), Clavel, M. (Author), Craig, W. W. (Author), Fabian, A. C. (Author), Fuerst, F. (Author), Hailey, C. J. (Author), Harrison, F. A. (Author), Miller, J. M. (Author), Parker, M. L. (Author), Rahoui, F. (Author), Stern, D. (Author), Tao, L. (Author), Wilms, J. (Author), Zhang, W. (Author), Grinberg, Victoria (Contributor)
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2016-12-22T19:18:02Z.
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