Spectral and Timing Study of V404 Cygni with CHANDRA Observations
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We present the spectral and timing study of V404 Cygni from all its available Chandra observations and which recently come up in public domain of Chandra data archive. The data reduction and analysis were done using CIAO 4.14 and HEASOFT 6.30.1. The spectral analysis was done using spectral fitting package XSPEC version 12.12.1, available in the Heasoft package. The spectra of the source is fitted in the energy range 0.3 -8.0 keV using two empirical spectral models - the absorbed power law and an absorbed disk-blackbody. The X-ray binary source V404 Cygni is found to be in the quiescent state having the X-ray luminosity in the range with
few times 1032 erg s−1. The source is found to be in the hard state and is well explained by power-law model with a powerlaw photon index Γ ∼ 2 with nH in the range ∼ (0.7 -1.2) × 1022 cm−2. From timing analysis, Src-1 (V404 Cygni), in all the time bins- 0.5, 1 and 2 ks, the probability for the count rate to be constant is 0.17 ×10−33 in all the observations in the year 2021 and 2023 (ObsID 23421, ObsID 23422, ObsID 23423 & ObsID 28927). However, in the year 2017 observation it is found to be less variable. This clearly shows the presence of short-term variability in kilo-seconds time-scales with the currently available Chandra data. So, it is indicative that the binary source V404 Cygni is more likely to be variable source both in long-term (years) as well as short-term (kiloseconds) scales.
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