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Broadband X-ray spectra and timing of the accreting millisecond pulsar Swift J1756.9-2508 during its 2018 and 2019 outbursts
Xiangtan Univ, Key Lab Stars & Interstellar Medium, Xiangtan 411105, Hunan, Peoples R China..
SRON Netherlands Inst Space Res, Sorbonnelaan 2, NL-3584 CA Utrecht, Netherlands..
Int Space Sci Inst ISSI, Hallerstr 6, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland..
KTH, Centra, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics NORDITA. Univ Turku, Dept Phys & Astron, Turku 20014, Finland.;Russian Acad Sci, Space Res Inst, Profsoyuznaya Str 84-32, Moscow 117997, Russia.;KTH Royal Inst Technol, NORDITA, Roslagstullsbacken 23, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.;Stockholm Univ, Roslagstullsbacken 23, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden..ORCID-id: 0000-0002-0983-0049
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2021 (Engelska)Ingår i: Astronomy and Astrophysics, ISSN 0004-6361, E-ISSN 1432-0746, Vol. 649, artikel-id A76Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
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The accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar Swift J1756.9-2508 launched into an outburst in April 2018 and June 2019 - 8.7 years after the previous period of activity. We investigated the temporal, timing, and spectral properties of these two outbursts using data from NICER, XMM-Newton, NuSTAR, INTEGRAL, Swift, and Insight-HXMT. The two outbursts exhibited similar broadband spectra and X-ray pulse profiles. For the first time, we report the detection of the pulsed emission up to similar to 100 keV that was observed by Insight-HXMT during the 2018 outburst. We also found the pulsation up to similar to 60 keV that was observed by NICER and NuSTAR during the 2019 outburst. We performed a coherent timing analysis combining the data from the two outbursts. The binary system is well described by a constant orbital period over a time span of similar to 12 years. The time-averaged broadband spectra are well fitted by the absorbed thermal Comptonization model COMPPS in a slab geometry with an electron temperature, kT(e)=40-50 keV, Thomson optical depth tau similar to 1.3, blackbody seed photon temperature kT(bb, seed)similar to 0.7-0.8 keV, and hydrogen column density of N-H similar to 4.2x10(22) cm(-2). We searched the available data for type-I (thermonuclear) X-ray bursts, but found none, which is unsurprising given the estimated low peak accretion rate (approximate to 0.05 of the Eddington rate) and generally low expected burst rates for hydrogen-poor fuel. Based on the history of four outbursts to date, we estimate the long-term average accretion rate at roughly 5x10(-12) M-circle dot yr(-1) for an assumed distance of 8 kpc. The expected mass transfer rate driven by gravitational radiation in the binary implies the source may be no closer than 4 kpc. Swift J1756.9-2508 is the third low mass X-ray binary exhibiting "double" outbursts, which are separated by much shorter intervals than what we typically see and are likely to result from interruption of the accretion flow from the disk onto the neutron star. Such behavior may have important implications for the disk instability model.

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EDP Sciences , 2021. Vol. 649, artikel-id A76
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stars: neutron, X-rays: general, pulsars: individual: Swift J1756, 9-2508, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, X-rays: binaries
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-297751DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140360ISI: 000655373900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85106044520OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-297751DiVA, id: diva2:1571300
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Tillgänglig från: 2021-06-22 Skapad: 2021-06-22 Senast uppdaterad: 2022-06-25Bibliografiskt granskad

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