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Investigation of the Outburst Activity of the Black Hole Candidate GRS 1739-278

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We have performed a joint spectral and timing analysis of the outburst of GRS 1739-278 in 2014 based on Swift and INTEGRAL data. We show that during this outburst the system exhibited both intermediate states: hard and soft. Peaks of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the frequency range 0.1–5 Hz classified as type-C QPOs have been detected from the system. Using Swift/BAT data we show that after the 2014 outburst the system passed to the regime of mini-outburst activity: apart from the three mini-outbursts mentioned in the literature, we have detected four more mini-outbursts with a comparable (∼20 mCrab) flux in the hard energy band (15–50 keV). We have investigated the influence of the accretion history on the outburst characteristics: the dependence of the peak flux in the hard energy band in the low/hard state on the time interval between the current and previous peaks has been found (for the outbursts during which the system passed to the high/soft state).

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  1. Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    S. D. Bykov, E. V. Filippova, I. A. Mereminskiy, A. N. Semena & A. A. Lutovinov

  2. Higher School of Economics, Myasnitskaya ul. 20, Moscow, 101000, Russia

    S. D. Bykov & A. A. Lutovinov

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Russian Text © S.D. Bykov, E.V. Filippova, I.A. Mereminskiy, A.N. Semena, A.A. Lutovinov, 2019, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2019, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 170–191.

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Bykov, S.D., Filippova, E.V., Mereminskiy, I.A. et al. Investigation of the Outburst Activity of the Black Hole Candidate GRS 1739-278. Astron. Lett. 45, 127–146 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773719030022

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