Vaughan, B. A. and van der Klis, M. and Méndez, M. and van Paradijs, J. and Wijnands, R. A. D. and Lewin, W. H. G. and Lamb, F. K. and Psaltis, D. and Kuulkers, E. and Oosterbroek, T.
(1997)
Discovery of Microsecond Time Lags in Kilohertz QPOs.
Astrophysical Journal Letters, 483
(2).
L115-L118.
ISSN 2041-8205.
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Abstract
Using the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer, we have measured ~27 μs time delays in 830 Hz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) between 4-6 and 11-17 keV in 4U 1608-52, with high-energy photons lagging low-energy photons, and found upper limits to the time delays of 45 μs between 2-6.5 and 6.5-67 keV in ~730 Hz QPOs in 4U 0614+091 and 30 μs between 8.7-12.4 and 12.4-67 keV in ~870 Hz QPOs in 4U 1636-53. We also find that the cross-coherence function between QPOs at different energies is greater than 0.85 with 95% confidence in 4U 1608-52 and 4U 1636-53. If Compton upscattering of low-energy X-rays in a region with an optical depth of a few is responsible for the delays, then the Compton upscattering region is between a few kilometers and a few tens of kilometers in size.
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| Additional Information: | © 1997. American Astronomical Society.
Received 1997 January 3, accepted for publication 1997 April 22.
An Erratum for this article has been published in 1998 ApJ 509 L145.
The authors acknowledge Michael Nowak and Lev Titarchuk
for useful comments and suggestions. B. A. V. acknowledges
support from the United States National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) under grants NAG 5-3340 and NAG
5-3293. J. v. P. acknowledges support from NASA under grant
NAG 5-3269. T. O. acknowledges a European Space Agency
(ESA) research fellowship. F. K. L. and D. P. acknowledge NSF
grants AST-9315133 and AST-9618524 and NASA grant NAG
5-2925. M. M. is a fellow of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
Cientı´ficas y Te´cnicas de la Repu´blica Argentina.
W. H. G. L. acknowledges support from NASA. This work was
supported in part by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific
Research (NWO) under grant PGS 78-277 and by the Netherlands
Foundation for Research in Astronomy (ASTRON) under
grant 781-76-017. |
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| NASA | NAG 5-3340 | | NASA | NAG 5-3293 | | NASA | NAG 5-3269 | | NASA | NAG 5-2925 | | NWO | PGS-78-277 | | NSF | AST-9315133 | | NSF | AST-9618524 | | ASTRON | 784-76-017 |
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| Non-Subject Keywords: | accretion, accretion disks; stars: individual (4U 1608–52, 4U 0614+614, 4U 1636–53); stars: neutron; X-rays: stars |
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