Spectral Analysis of New Black Hole Candidate AT2019wey Observed by NuSTAR

Abstract

AT2019wey is a new galactic X-ray binary that was first discovered as an optical transient by the Australia Telescope Large Area Survey (ATLAS) on December 7, 2019. AT2019wey consists of a black hole candidate as well as a low-mass companion star ($M_{\text{star }}\lesssim 0.8M_{\odot }$) and is likely to have a short orbital period ($P_{\text{orb }}\lesssim 8$ h). Although AT2019wey began activation in the X-ray band during almost the entire outburst on March 8, 2020, it did not enter the soft state during the entire outburst. In this study, we present a detailed spectral analysis of AT2019wey in the low/hard state during its X-ray outburst on the basis of Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array \emph observations. We obtain tight constraints on several of its important physical parameters by applying the State-of-art \texttt{relxill} relativistic reflection model family. In particular, we determine that the measured inner radius of the accretion disk is most likely to have extended to the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) radius, i.e., $R_{\text{in}}=1.38_{-0.16}^{+0.23}{R}_{\text{ISCO}}$. Hence, assuming $R_{\text{in}}$=$R_{\text{ISCO}}$, we find the spin of AT2019wey to be $a_{\ast }\sim$ $0.97$, which is close to the extreme and an inner disk inclination angle of ~$i\sim$ $22^{\circ }$. Additionally, according to our adopted models, AT2019wey tends to have a relatively high iron abundance of $A_{\mathrm{Fe}}\sim$ 5 $A_{\mathrm{Fe},\odot }$ and a high disk ionization state of $\log \xi \sim$ 3.4.

arXiv comment14 pages, 4 figures; Accepted for publication in SCPMA

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