2025PASJ...77S..86M


Query : 2025PASJ...77S..86M

2025PASJ...77S..86M - Publ. Astron. Soc. Jap., 77, 86-95 (2025/September-0)

XRISM spectroscopy on orbital modulation of Fe Lyα lines in Cygnus X-3.

MIURA D., YAMAGUCHI H., BALLHAUSEN R., KALLMAN T., ENOTO T., YAMADA S., HAKAMATA T., TOMARU R., ODAKA H., HELL N., NAKAJIMA H., WATANABE S., HAYASHI T., KITAMOTO S., YAMAOKA K., MILLER J.M., OKABE K., MARUZUKA I., KOLJONEN K. and McCOLLOUGH M.

Abstract (from CDS):

To understand physical processes such as mass transfer and binary evolution in X-ray binaries, the orbital parameters of the system are fundamental and crucial information. Cygnus X-3 is a high-mass X-ray binary composed of a compact object of unknown nature and a Wolf-Rayet star, which is of great interest in the context of wind-fed mass accretion and binary evolution. Here we present XRISM/Resolve high-resolution spectroscopy, focusing on the Fe Ly$\alpha$ lines when the source was in its hypersoft state. We perform an orbital phase-resolved spectral analysis of the lines to study the orbital modulation of the emission and absorption lines. It is found that the emission lines reflect the orbital motion of the compact object whose estimated velocity amplitude is $430^{+150}_{-140}$ km s$^{-1}$, while the absorption lines show a variation that can be interpreted as originating from the stellar wind. We discuss possible mass ranges for the binary components using the mass function with the estimated value of the velocity amplitude in this work, combined with the relation between the mass-loss rate and the orbital period derivative and the empirical mass and mass-loss rate relation for Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars. They are constrained to be (1.3-5.1) and (9.3-12) M$_\odot$, respectively, for the assumed inclination angle of $i =25^\circ$, and become more relaxed, (1.3-24) and (9.3-16) M$_\odot$, for $i = 35^\circ$. Thus, it remains unclear whether the system harbors a black hole or a neutron star.

Abstract Copyright: © The Author(s) 2025. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Astronomical Society of Japan.

Journal keyword(s): accretion, accretion disks - stars: individual (Cygnus X-3) - stars: winds, outflows - stars: Wolf-Rayet - X-rays: binaries

Simbad objects: 2

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Number of rows : 2
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 2MASS J17004888-4139214 HXB 17 00 48.884 -41 39 21.46           Ofpe/WN9 272 0
2 V* V1521 Cyg HXB 20 32 25.78 +40 57 27.9           WN4/5-6/7 2035 2

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