X-Ray and Near-Infrared Observations of GX 339-4 in the Low/Hard State with Suzaku and IRSF

Abstract

X-ray and near-infrared ( $J$ - $H$ - $K_{\rm s}$ ) observations of the galactic black-hole binary GX 339 $-$ 4 in the low/hard state were performed with Suzaku and IRSF in 2009 March. The spectrum in the 0.5-300 keV band is dominated by thermal Comptonization of multicolor disk photons, with a small contribution from a direct disk component, indicating that the inner disk is almost fully covered by hot corona with an electron temperature of $\approx$ 175 keV. The Comptonizing corona has at least two optical depths, $\tau$ $\approx$ 1, 0.4. Analysis of the iron-K line profile yields an inner-disk radius of (13.3 $^{+6.4}_{-6.0}$ ) $\ R_{\rm g}$ ( $\ R_{\rm g}$ represents the gravitational radius $GM/c^2$ ), with the best-fit inclination angle of $\approx$ 50 $^\circ$ . This radius is consistent with that estimated from the continuum fit by assuming the conservation of photon numbers in Comptonization. Our results suggest that the standard disk of GX 339 $-$ 4 is likely truncated before reaching the innermost stable circular orbit (for a non-rotating black hole) in the low/hard states at $\sim\ $ 1% of the Eddington luminosity. The one-day averaged near-infrared light curves are found to be correlated with hard X-ray flux with $F_{\rm Ks}$ $\propto$ $F_{\rm X}^{0.45}$ . The flatter near-infrared $\nu F_{\nu}$ spectrum than the radio one suggests that the optically thin synchrotron radiation from the compact jets dominates the near-infrared flux. Based on a simple analysis, we estimate the magnetic field and size of the jet base to be 5 $\times$ 10 $^{4}\ $ G and 6 $\times$ 10 $^{8}\ $ cm, respectively. The synchrotron self Compton component is estimated to be approximately 0.4% of the total X-ray flux.