The Spectrum of the Black Hole X‐Ray Nova V404 Cygni in Quiescence as Measured by XMM‐Newton

  • Bradley C
  • Hynes R
  • Kong A
  • et al.
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We present XMM-Newton observations of the black hole X-ray nova V404 Cyg in quiescence. Its quiescent spectrum can be best fitted by a simple power law with slope Γ~2. The spectra are consistent with that expected for the advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF). V404 Cyg was roughly equal in luminosity compared to the previous observation of Chandra. We see variability of a factor of 4 during the observation. We find no evidence for the presence of fluorescent or H-like/He-like iron emission, with upper limits of 52 and 110 eV, respectively. The limit on the fluorescent emission is improved by a factor of 15 over the previous estimate, and the restriction on H-like/He-like emission is lower than predicted from models by a factor of roughly 2.

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Bradley, C. K., Hynes, R. I., Kong, A. K. H., Haswell, C. A., Casares, J., & Gallo, E. (2007). The Spectrum of the Black Hole X‐Ray Nova V404 Cygni in Quiescence as Measured by XMM‐Newton. The Astrophysical Journal, 667(1), 427–432. https://doi.org/10.1086/520323

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