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Massi, M;Migliari, S;Chernyakova, M
2017
July
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society
The black hole candidate LS I+61 degrees 303
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GAMMA-RAY BINARY PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 X-RAY PERIASTRON PASSAGE I +61-DEGREES-303 MULTIWAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS SPECTRAL EVOLUTION SWIFT J1357.2-0933 NEUTRON-STAR I+61 303
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In recent years, fundamental relationships for the black hole X-ray binaries have been established between their X-ray luminosity L-X and the photon index Gamma of their X-ray spectrum. For the moderate -luminosity regime, an anticorrelation between F and L-X has been observed. In this paper, aimed to verify if the moderate luminous X-ray binary system LS I +61 degrees 303 is a black hole, we analyse Swift observations of LSI+61 degrees 303. We compare the derived L-X versus F distribution, first with the statistical trend for black hole X-ray binaries, then with the trend of the pulsar PSR B1259-63 and finally with the individual trends of the black hole X-ray binaries Swift J1357.2-0933 and V404 Cygni. We find that the system PSR B1259-63 shows a positive correlation between F and L-X, whereas in contrast LS I +61 degrees 303 shows the same anticorrelation as for black hole X-ray binaries. Moreover, the trend of LS I +61 degrees 303 in the L-X/L-Eddinoton-Gamma plane overlaps with that of the two black holes Swift J1357.2-0933 and V404 Cygni. All three systems, Swift J1357.2-0933, V404 Cygni and LS I +61 degrees 303 well trace the last part of the evolution of accreting black holes at moderate luminosity until their drop to quiescence.
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0035-8711
10.1093/mnras/stx778
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