# Anti-correlated hard X-ray time lags in Galactic black hole sources

Source: [Anti-correlated hard X-ray time lags in Galactic black hole sources](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa2a121e209131ce83a17b>)

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Authors: K. Sriram, V. K. Agrawal, Jayant K. Pendharkar, A. R. Rao

Published: 2007-03-05T11:15:41.000Z

## Abstract

We investigate the accretion disk geometry in Galactic black hole sources by measuring the time delay between soft and hard X-ray emissions. Similar to the recent discoveries of anti-correlated hard X-ray time lags in Cyg X-3 and GRS 1915+105, we find that the hard X-rays are anti-correlated with soft X-rays with a significant lag in another source: XTE J1550-564. We also find the existence of pivoting in the model independent X-ray spectrum during these observations. We investigate time-resolved X-ray spectral parameters and find that the variation in these parameters is consistent with the idea of a truncated accretion disk. The QPO frequency, which is a measure of the size of truncated accretion disk, too changes indicating that the geometric size of the hard X-ray emitting region changes along with the spectral pivoting and soft X-ray flux. Similar kind of delay is also noticed in 4U 1630-47.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703074>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0703074.pdf>)