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A systematic analysis of the phase lags associated with the type-C quasi-periodic oscillation in GRS 1915+105

A systematic analysis of the phase lags associated with the type-C quasi-periodic oscillation in GRS 1915+105
A systematic analysis of the phase lags associated with the type-C quasi-periodic oscillation in GRS 1915+105
We present a systematic analysis of the phase lags associated with the type-C QPOs in GRS1915+105 using RXTE data. Our sample comprises of 620RXTE observations with type-CQPOs ranging from ∼0.4Hz to ∼6.3Hz. Based on our analysis, we confirm that the QPO phase lags decrease with QPO frequency, and change sign from positive to negative at a QPO frequency of ∼2Hz. In addition, we find that the slope of this relation is significantly different between QPOs below and above 2 Hz. The relation between the QPO lags and QPO rms can be well fitted with a broken line: as the QPO lags go from negative to positive, the QPO rms first increases, reaching its maximum at around zero lag, and then decreases. The phase-lag behaviour of the subharmonic of the QPO is similar to that of the QPO fundamental, where the subharmonic lags decrease with subharmonic frequency and change sign from positive to negative at a subharmonic frequency of ∼1Hz; on the contrary, the second harmonic of the QPO shows a quite different phase-lag behaviour, where all the second harmonics show hard lags that remain more or less constant. For both the QPO and its (sub)harmonics, the slope of the lag-energy spectra shows a similar evolution with frequency as the average phase lags. This suggests that the lag-energy spectra drives the average phase lags. We discuss the possibility for the change in lag sign, and the physical origin of the QPO lags.
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Zhang, Liang
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Zhang, Liang, Méndez, Mariano, Altamirano, Diego, Qu, Jinlu, Chen, Li, Karpouzas, Konstantinos, Belloni, Tomaso M., Bu, Qingcui, Huang, Yue, Ma, Xiang, Tao, Lian and Wang, Yanan (2020) A systematic analysis of the phase lags associated with the type-C quasi-periodic oscillation in GRS 1915+105. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. (In Press)

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We present a systematic analysis of the phase lags associated with the type-C QPOs in GRS1915+105 using RXTE data. Our sample comprises of 620RXTE observations with type-CQPOs ranging from ∼0.4Hz to ∼6.3Hz. Based on our analysis, we confirm that the QPO phase lags decrease with QPO frequency, and change sign from positive to negative at a QPO frequency of ∼2Hz. In addition, we find that the slope of this relation is significantly different between QPOs below and above 2 Hz. The relation between the QPO lags and QPO rms can be well fitted with a broken line: as the QPO lags go from negative to positive, the QPO rms first increases, reaching its maximum at around zero lag, and then decreases. The phase-lag behaviour of the subharmonic of the QPO is similar to that of the QPO fundamental, where the subharmonic lags decrease with subharmonic frequency and change sign from positive to negative at a subharmonic frequency of ∼1Hz; on the contrary, the second harmonic of the QPO shows a quite different phase-lag behaviour, where all the second harmonics show hard lags that remain more or less constant. For both the QPO and its (sub)harmonics, the slope of the lag-energy spectra shows a similar evolution with frequency as the average phase lags. This suggests that the lag-energy spectra drives the average phase lags. We discuss the possibility for the change in lag sign, and the physical origin of the QPO lags.

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Accepted/In Press date: 18 March 2020
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Local EPrints ID: 441915
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/441915
ISSN: 1365-2966
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ORCID for Diego Altamirano: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3422-0074

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Author: Liang Zhang
Author: Mariano Méndez
Author: Jinlu Qu
Author: Li Chen
Author: Konstantinos Karpouzas
Author: Tomaso M. Belloni
Author: Qingcui Bu
Author: Yue Huang
Author: Xiang Ma
Author: Lian Tao
Author: Yanan Wang

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