Two years of INTEGRAL monitoring of GRS 1915+105 Part 1: multiwavelength coverage with INTEGRAL, RXTE, and the Ryle radio Telescope - IN2P3 - Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
Article Dans Une Revue The Astronomical Journal Année : 2008

Two years of INTEGRAL monitoring of GRS 1915+105 Part 1: multiwavelength coverage with INTEGRAL, RXTE, and the Ryle radio Telescope

D. C. Hannikainen
  • Fonction : Auteur
S. E. Shaw
  • Fonction : Auteur
G. Pooley
  • Fonction : Auteur
Michel Tagger
I. F. Mirabel
  • Fonction : Auteur
T. Belloni
  • Fonction : Auteur
M. Cadolle Bel
  • Fonction : Auteur
J. Chenevez
  • Fonction : Auteur
P. Kretschmar
  • Fonction : Auteur
H. J. Lehto
  • Fonction : Auteur
A. Paizis
  • Fonction : Auteur
P. Varniere
O. Vilhu
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

(Abridged) We report the results of monitoring observations of the Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105 performed simultaneously with INTEGRAL and RXTE Ryle . We present the results of the whole \integral campaign, report the sources that are detected and their fluxes and identify the classes of variability in which GRS 1915+105 is found. The accretion ejection connections are studied in a model independent manner through the source light curves, hardness ratio, and color color diagrams. During a period of steady ''hard'' X-ray state (the so-called class chi) we observe a steady radio flux. We then turn to 3 particular observations during which we observe several types of soft X-ray dips and spikes cycles, followed by radio flares. During these observations GRS 1915+105 is in the so-called nu, lambda, and beta classes of variability. The observation of ejections during class lambda are the first ever reported. We generalize the fact that a (non-major) discrete ejection always occurs, in GRS 1915+105, as a response to an X-ray sequence composed of a spectrally hard X-ray dip terminated by an X-ray spike marking the disappearance of the hard X-ray emission above 18 keV. We also identify the trigger of the ejection as this X-ray spike. A possible correlation between the amplitude of the radio flare and the duration of the X-ray dip is found in our data. In this case the X-ray dips prior to ejections could be seen as the time during which the source accumulates energy and material that is ejected later.

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in2p3-00295716 , version 1 (11-07-2008)

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J. Rodriguez, D. C. Hannikainen, S. E. Shaw, G. Pooley, S. Corbel, et al.. Two years of INTEGRAL monitoring of GRS 1915+105 Part 1: multiwavelength coverage with INTEGRAL, RXTE, and the Ryle radio Telescope. The Astronomical Journal, 2008, 675, pp.1436-1448. ⟨10.1086/527369⟩. ⟨in2p3-00295716⟩
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