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吸积毫秒脉冲星XTE J1807-294的自旋上升和相位涨落

Spin up and phase fluctuations in the timing of the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294

A. Riggio, T. Di Salvo, L. Burderi, M. T. Menna, A. Papitto, R. Iaria, G. Lavagetto

摘要:

对2003年RXTE观测到的吸积X射线毫秒脉冲星XTEJ 1807 -294爆发进行了时间分析。使用最近改进的轨道参数,我们报告的第一次精确估计的自旋频率和自旋频率的衍生物。脉冲轮廓的相位延迟显示出强烈的不稳定行为,叠加在全球自旋向上趋势上。脉冲相位的不稳定行为与光变曲线的快速变化密切相关,使得很难用简单的定律来拟合这些相位延迟。因此,与前面的情况一样,我们分别分析了自旋频率的一次谐波和二次谐波的相位延迟,发现二次谐波的相位受不稳定行为的影响要小得多。在假设二次谐波脉冲相位延迟是自旋频率演化的良好示踪剂的情况下,我们首次给出了该源中自旋频率导数的估计。源显示了$\dot ν= 2.5(7) \times 10^{-14}$ Hz sec $^{-1}$的清晰自旋上升(1 $σ$置信水平)。上旋速率值的最大不确定性来源于源在天空中位置的不确定性。我们讨论了自旋频率及其导数的系统学。

英文摘要:

We performed a timing analysis of the 2003 outburst of the accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294 observed by RXTE. Using recently refined orbital parameters we report for the first time a precise estimate of the spin frequency and of the spin frequency derivative. The phase delays of the pulse profile show a strong erratic behavior superposed to what appears as a global spin-up trend. The erratic behavior of the pulse phases is strongly related to rapid variations of the light curve, making it very difficult to fit these phase delays with a simple law. As in previous cases, we have therefore analyzed separately the phase delays of the first harmonic and of the second harmonic of the spin frequency, finding that the phases of the second harmonic are far less affected by the erratic behavior. In the hypothesis that the second harmonic pulse phase delays are a good tracer of the spin frequency evolution we give for the first time a estimation of the spin frequency derivative in this source. The source shows a clear spin-up of $\dot ν= 2.5(7) \times 10^{-14}$ Hz sec$^{-1}$ (1 $σ$ confidence level). The largest source of uncertainty in the value of the spin-up rate is given by the uncertainties on the source position in the sky. We discuss this systematics on the spin frequency and its derivative.

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