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超亮X射线源NGC 1313 X-2中弱相干脉动的发现

The discovery of weak coherent pulsations in the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 1313 X-2

R. Sathyaprakash, T. P. Roberts, D. J. Walton, F. Fuerst, M. Bachetti, C. Pinto, W. N. Alston, H. P. Earnshaw, A. C. Fabian, M. J. Middleton, R. Soria

摘要:

我们报道了从原型超铝X射线源(ULX)NGC 1313 X-2中探测到的微弱脉动。加速度搜索揭示了正弦脉动的片段中的六个新的深度观测这个对象,周期为$\sim$ 1.5秒和脉冲分数的$\sim$ 5%。我们使用蒙特卡罗模拟来证明,个别检测是不太可能起源于错误的泊松噪声检测,因为它们非常接近的频率;它们与其他从ULX检测到的脉动的强烈相似性也表明它们是真实的。NGC 1313 X-2周围存在一个大的气泡星云,这意味着ULX的吸积阶段的年龄为100万年,这意味着中子星的磁场没有随着时间的推移被吸积物质抑制,也没有中子星坍缩成黑洞,尽管平均能量输出到星云中比爱丁顿高两个数量级。这表明大部分的吸积物质在ULX的生命周期中已经被排出,有利于物理模型,包括中子星ULX的强风和/或喷流。

英文摘要:

We report the detection of weak pulsations from the archetypal ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) NGC 1313 X-2. Acceleration searches reveal sinusoidal pulsations in segments of two out of six new deep observations of this object, with a period of $\sim$ 1.5 s and a pulsed fraction of $\sim$ 5%. We use Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate that the individual detections are unlikely to originate in false Poisson noise detections given their very close frequencies; their strong similarity to other pulsations detected from ULXs also argues they are real. The presence of a large bubble nebula surrounding NGC 1313 X-2 implies an age of order 1 Myr for the accreting phase of the ULX, which implies that the neutron star's magnetic field has not been suppressed over time by accreted material, nor has the neutron star collapsed into a black hole, despite an average energy output into the nebula two orders of magnitude above Eddington. This argues that most of the accreted material has been expelled over the lifetime of the ULX, favouring physical models including strong winds and/or jets for neutron star ULXs.

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