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The hard X-ray behavior of Aql X-1 during type-I bursts

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arxiv 1309.6380 v2 pith:DIQY62HX submitted 2013-09-25 astro-ph.HE

The hard X-ray behavior of Aql X-1 during type-I bursts

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We report the discovery of an anti-correlation between the soft and the hard X-ray lightcurves of the X-ray binary Aql X-1 when bursting. This behavior may indicate that the corona is cooled by the soft X-ray shower fed by the type-I X-ray bursts, and that this process happens within a few seconds. Stacking the Aql X-1 lightcurves of type-I bursts, we find a shortage in the 40--50 keV band, delayed by 4.5$\pm$1.4 s with respect to the soft X-rays. The photospheric radius expansion (PRE) bursts are different in that neither a shortage nor an excess shows up in the hard X-ray lightcurve.

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