RXTE All Sky Monitor lightcurve of Cyg X-1 rebinned to a resolution of 1 d for the two year period surrounding the observations. The times of our four analyzed observations are marked with the vertical lines. Color coding corresponds to spectral state classification as defined by Grinberg et al. (2013): the blue color represents hard state, while the green color represents the intermediate state data. The inset is zoomed in on the four observations, with a resolution of one data point per spacecraft orbit.