Detection of a low frequency quasi-periodic oscillation in the soft state of Cygnus X-1 with Insight-HXMT
arXiv:2104.14307 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac0f7b
Abstract
We report the detection of a short-lived narrow quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) at ~88 mHz in an Insight-HXMT observation during the soft state of the persistent black hole high mass X-ray binary Cygnus X-1. This QPO is significantly detected in all the three instruments of Insight-HXMT, so in the broad energy range 1-250 keV. The fractional rms of the QPO does not show significant variations above 3 keV (~5%) while decreases at lower energy (~2%). We show that this QPO is different from the type-A, -B, and -C QPOs usually observed in black hole X-ray binaries. We compare QPOs at similar frequencies that have been previously detected in other persistent high-mass X-ray binaries in the soft state; we speculate that such QPOs might relate to some local inhomogeneity rarely formed in the accretion flow of wind-fed accretion systems.
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