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2012MNRAS.427L..11Y - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 427, L11-L15 (2012/November-3)

An ultraviolet flux drop preceding the X-ray hard-to-soft state transition during the 2010 outburst of GX 339-4.

YAN Z. and YU W.

Abstract (from CDS):

The black hole X-ray transient GX 339-4 was observed with the Swift satellite across the hard-to-soft state transition during its 2010 outburst. The ultraviolet (UV) flux measured with the filter UVW2 of the Swift/UVOT started to decrease nearly 10 days before the drop in the hard X-ray flux when the hard-to-soft state transition started. The UV flux, FUV, correlated with the X-ray flux, FX, as {img} before the drop in the UV flux. During the UV drop lasting about 16 days, the X-ray flux in 0.4–10 keV was increasing. The drop in the UV flux indicates that the jet started to quench 10 days before the hard-to-soft state transition seen in X-rays, which is unexpected.

Abstract Copyright: 2012 The Authors Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society2012 RAS

Journal keyword(s): accretion, accretion discs - black hole physics - ISM: jets and outflows - X-rays: binaries - X-rays: individual: GX 339-4

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