Characteristics of the high-frequency humps in the black hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8–1613
We present a detailed timing analysis of the two high-frequency humps observed in the power density spectrum of Swift J1727.8–1613 up to 100 keV, using data from the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT). Our analysis reveals that the characteristic frequencies of the humps increase with energy up to ∼30 keV, followed by a plateau at higher energies. The fractional rms amplitudes of the humps increase with energy, reaching approximately 15% in the 50–100 keV band. The lag spectrum of the hump is characterized primarily by a soft lag that varies with energy. Our results suggest that the high-frequency humps originate from a corona close to the black hole. Additionally, by applying the relativistic precession model, we constrain the mass of Swift J1727.8–1613 to 2.84 < M/M⊙ < 120.01 and the spin to 0.14 < a < 0.43 from the full-energy-band dataset, using triplets composed of a type-C quasiperiodic oscillation and two high-frequency humps. When considering only the high-energy bands with stable characteristic frequencies, we derive additional constraints of 2.84 < M/M⊙ < 13.98 and 0.14 < a < 0.40.
Authors
- Pan-Ping Li
- Ruican Ma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3260-8718)
- Qingchang Zhao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9893-8248)
- Zi-Xu Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1718-8487)
- Zi-Han Yang
- Ze-Xi Li
- Shu-Mei Jia
- Liang Zhang
- Shu-Jie Zhao
- Jin-Lu Qu
- Yue Huang
- Shuang-Nan Zhang
- Lian Tao
- Xiang Ma
- Shu Zhang
- Hua Feng
Publication Details
- Journal
- Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)
- Published
- 2026-02-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202555276/pdf
- Primary Topic
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- China National Space Administration
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences