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Spectral study of GX 339-4 with TCAF using Swift and NuSTAR observation

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We fit spectra of galactic transient source GX 339-4 during its 2013 outburst using Two Component Advective Flow (TCAF) solution. For the first time, we are fitting combined NuSTAR and Swift observation with TCAF. We use TCAF to fit 0.8–9.0 keV Swift and 4–79 keV NuSTAR spectra along with the LAOR model. To fit the data we use disk accretion rate, halo accretion rate, size of the Compton cloud and the density jump of advective flows at this cloud boundary as model parameters. From TCAF fitted flow parameters, and energy spectral index we conclude that the source was in the hard state throughout this particular outburst. The present analysis also gives some idea about the broadening of Fe \(K_{\alpha }\) with the accretion rate. Since TCAF does not include Fe line yet, we make use of the ‘LAOR model’ as a phenomenological model and find an estimate of the Kerr parameter to be \({\sim} 0.99\) for this candidate.

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Acknowledgements

We are thankful to Dr. Varun Bhalerao for the tutorial of NuSTAR analysis during RETCO-II conference. We are also thankful to the anonymous referee for the useful suggestions to improve the quality of the manuscript. SM acknowledges support from a post doctoral grant of the Ministry of Earth Science, Govt. of India and FONDECYT post-doctoral fellowship grand (# 3160350). DD acknowledges support from the project fund of DST sponsored Fast-track Young Scientist (SR/FTP/PS-188/2012). This research has made use of the NuSTAR Data Analysis Software (NuSTARDAS) jointly developed by the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC, Italy) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech, USA), and the XRT Data Analysis Software (XRTDAS) developed under the responsibility of the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC), Italy.

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Mondal, S., Chakrabarti, S.K. & Debnath, D. Spectral study of GX 339-4 with TCAF using Swift and NuSTAR observation. Astrophys Space Sci 361, 309 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-016-2877-y

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