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In the thermal state (formerly high/soft state, and “thermal dominant” state in McClintock & Remillard 2006) the flux is dominated by the heat radiation from the inner accretion disk, the integrated power continuum is faint, and QPOs are absent or very weak (see Table 2). There is usually a second, nonthermal component in the flux, but its contribution is limited to < 25% of the flux at 2-20 keV. The state is illustrated in the middle row of panels in Figure 2. The spectral deconvolution shows that the thermal component (red line) is much stronger than the PL component (blue dashed line) for keV. The PDS (right panel), which is plotted in terms of versus , appears featureless. Similar displays of paired energy spectra and PDSs for nine other BHBs/BHCs in the thermal state are shown in McClintock & Remillard (2006).
Source: Remillard & McClintock 2006 ┃ X-Ray Properties… ⚬𓂃
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