Middleton, M. J. and Walton, D. J. and Alston, W. and Dauser, T. and Eikenberry, S. and Jiang, Y.-F. and Fabian, A. C. and Fuerst, F. and Brightman, M. and Marshall, H. and Parker, M. and Pinto, C. and Harrison, F. A. and Bachetti, M. and Altamirano, D. and Bird, A. J. and Perez, G. and Miller-Jones, J. and Charles, P. A. and Boggs, S. and Christensen, F. and Craig, W. and Forster, K. and Grefenstette, B. and Hailey, C. and Madsen, K. and Stern, D. and Zhang, W. (2018) NuSTAR reveals the hidden nature of SS433. . (Submitted) https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190225-081654781
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SS433 is the only Galactic binary system known to accrete at highly super-critical rates, analogous to tidal disruption events and some high redshift quasars. Probing the inner regions of SS433 in the X-rays is crucial to understanding the system yet has not been possible due to obscuration. NuSTAR observed SS433 in the hard X-ray band across multiple phases of its super-orbital precession period. Spectral-timing tools have allowed us to determine that the hard X-ray emission from the inner regions is scattered towards us by the walls of the wind-cone. By comparing to numerical models, we determine an intrinsic X-ray luminosity of ≥ 1×10^(38) erg/s and a face-on luminosity of > 1×10^(39) erg/s. A lag due to absorption by Fe XXV/XXVI in outflowing material travelling at least 0.14-0.29c strengthens the association with ultraluminous X-ray sources and - in future - will allow us to map a super-critical outflow for the first time.
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Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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