A systematic look at the Very High and Low/Hard state of GX 339-4: Constraining the black hole spin with a new reflection model

Abstract

We present a systematic study of GX 339-4 in both its very high and low hard states from simultaneous observations made with XMM-Newton and RXTE in 2002 and 2004. The X-ray spectra of both these extreme states exhibit strong reflection signatures, with a broad, skewed Fe-Kalpha line clearly visible above the continuum. Using a newly developed, self-consistent reflection model which implicitly includes the blackbody radiation of the disc as well as the effect of Comptonisation, blurred with a relativistic line function, we were able to infer the spin parameter of GX 339-4 to be 0.935 +/- 0.01 (statistical) +/- 0.01 (systematic) at 90 per cent confidence. We find that both states are consistent with an ionised thin accretion disc extending to the innermost stable circular orbit around the rapidly spinning black hole.

10 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS 17/04/08

References in corpus (8)

• Constraining Black Hole Spin Via X-ray Spectroscopy
• Relativistic X-ray Lines from the Inner Accretion Disks Around Black Holes
• A Long, Hard Look at the Low-Hard State in Accreting Black Holes
• Broad iron K-alpha emission lines as a diagnostic of black hole spin
• X-ray reflection in accreting stellar-mass black hole systems
• On the masses and evolutionary status of the black hole binary GX 339-4. A twin system of XTE J1550-564?
• Broadband X-ray Spectra of GX 339-4 and the Geometry of Accreting Black Holes in the Hard State
• Estimating the Spins of Stellar-Mass Black Holes

Cited by in corpus (47)

• The role of the reflection fraction in constraining black hole spin
• The Masses and Spins of Neutron Stars and Stellar-Mass Black Holes
• The 2003 Outburst of the X-ray Transient H 1743-322: Comparisons with the Black Hole Microquasar XTE J1550-564
• The radio/X-ray domain of black hole X-ray binaries at the lowest radio luminosities
• The gas-to-extinction ratio and the gas distribution in the Galaxy
• High Density Reflection Spectroscopy I. A case study of GX~339-4
• A Hard Look at the Neutron Stars and Accretion Disks in 4U 1636-53, GX 17+2, and 4U 1705-44 with $\text{NuSTAR}$
• Spectral variability of GX 339-4 in a hard-to-soft state transition
• A unified accretion-ejection paradigm for black hole X-ray binaries. IV. Replication of the 2010--2011 activity cycle of GX 339-4
• Phase-resolved spectroscopy of a quasi-periodic oscillation in the black hole X-ray binary GRS 1915+105 with NICER and NuSTAR
• Reflection Modeling of the Black Hole Binary 4U~1630$-$47: the Disk Density and Returning Radiation
• Study of the reflection spectrum of the accreting neutron star GX 3+1 using XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL
• Different X-ray spectral evolution for black hole X-ray binaries in dual tracks of radio-X-ray correlation
• Thermally-Driven Disc Winds as a Mechanism for X-ray Irradiation Heating in Black Hole X-ray Binaries: The Case Study of GX339-4
• Misalignment of the microquasar V4641 Sgr (SAX J1819.3--2525)
• A unified accretion-ejection paradigm for black hole X-ray binaries. V. Low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations
• Thermal emission from the stellar-mass black hole binary XTE J1118+480 in the low/hard state
• NuSTAR + XMM-Newton monitoring of the neutron star transient AX J1745.6-2901
• Estimation of the black hole spin in LMC X-1 using AstroSat
• A spectrally stratified hot accretion flow in the hard state of MAXI J1820+070
• The hard to soft transition of GX 339-4 as seen by Insight-HXMT
• A NICER look at the jet-like corona of MAXI J1535-571 through type-B quasi-periodic oscillations
• The spins of the Galactic black holes in MAXI J1535-571 and 4U 1630-472 from Insight-HXMT
• INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton Spectroscopy of GX 339-4 During Hard/Soft Intermediate and High/Soft States in the 2007 Outburst
• Insight-HXMT Study of the Inner Accretion Disk in the Black Hole Candidate EXO 1846--031
• NuSTAR and XMM-Newton observations of the 2015 outburst decay of GX 339-4
• High-density reflection spectroscopy of black hole X-ray binaries in the hard state
• Combining timing characteristics with physical broadband spectral modelling of black hole X-ray binary GX~339$-$4
• Doppler disc tomography applied to low mass AGN spin
• Bhjet: a public multi-zone, steady state jet + thermal corona spectral model
• State transitions of GX 339-4 during its outburst rising phase
• A strongly changing accretion morphology during the outburst decay of the neutron star X-ray binary 4U 1608-52
• Crossing the Eddington limit: examining disk spectra at high accretion rates
• Colors and patterns of black hole X-ray binary GX 339-4
• Constraining black hole spins with low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations in soft states
• Accretion Properties of MAXI J1813-095 during its Failed Outburst in 2018
• Verifying black hole orbits with gravitational spectroscopy
• A NuSTAR and Swift View of the Hard State of MAXI J1813-095
• Broadband Spectral properties of MAXI J1348--630 using AstroSat Observations
• Evolution of QPOs in GX 339-4 and EXO 1846-031 with Insight-HXMT and NICER
• Searching for quantum-gravity footprint around stellar-mass black holes
• Reflection Spectra of Accretion Disks Illuminated by an Off-Axis Corona
• Investigating disc-corona interaction in axisymmetric accretion disc models
• Accretion Geometry of Black Hole X-ray Binaries: Insights from X-ray Observations
• An apparent positive relation between spin and orbital angular momentum in X-ray binaries
• Observable consequences of pseudo-complex General Relativity
• Comparison of Relativistic Iron Line Models