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arXiv 2003.11030astro-ph.HE
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年轻的X射线脉冲星SXP 1062在2019年爆发期间的不寻常行为

The unusual behaviour of the young X-ray pulsar SXP 1062 during the 2019 outburst

Sergey S. Tsygankov, Victor Doroshenko, Alexander A. Mushtukov, Frank Haberl, Georgios Vasilopoulos, Chandreyee Maitra, Andrea Santangelo, Alexander A. Lutovinov, Juri Poutanen

摘要:

我们介绍了年轻的X射线脉冲星SXP 1062在其2019年爆发期间与NuSTAR和XMM-Newton天文台获得的宽X射线能带中的首次专门观测结果。的脉冲相位平均和相位分辨光谱的能量带从0.5至70千电子伏的分析没有发现任何证据的回旋线的存在。脉冲星的自转周期被发现已经减少到979.48+/-0.06秒,这意味着与大约五年前进行的监测活动期间的最后一次测量周期相比减少了约10%,并且考虑到该系统显然没有显示出重大的爆发,这是令人困惑的。脉冲星向上旋状态的转变支持了一个普遍的假设,即作用在吸积中子星上的扭矩几乎是平衡的,因此SXP 1062也可能以接近该系统平衡值的周期旋转。目前对该源的监测还显示,在爆发之后,其软X射线通量急剧下降,这与前一次爆发期间的行为形成了鲜明对比,当时脉冲星在爆发结束后的几年里仍然可以观察到,只有轻微的通量下降。源的这种意外关闭状态最多持续20天,之后SXP 1062恢复到在先前活动期间观察到的水平。我们讨论了这一点和其他发现的背景下,吸积到强磁化中子星的现代模型。

英文摘要:

We present results of the first dedicated observation of the young X-ray pulsar SXP 1062 in the broad X-ray energy band obtained during its 2019 outburst with the NuSTAR and XMM-Newton observatories. The analysis of the pulse-phase averaged and phase-resolved spectra in the energy band from 0.5 to 70 keV did not reveal any evidence for the presence of a cyclotron line. The spin period of the pulsar was found to have decreased to 979.48+/-0.06 s implying a ~10% reduction compared to the last measured period during the monitoring campaign conducted about five years ago, and is puzzling considering that the system apparently did not show major outbursts ever since. The switch of the pulsar to the spin-up regime supports the common assumption that torques acting on the accreting neutron star are nearly balanced and thus SXP 1062 likely also spins with a period close to the equilibrium value for this system. The current monitoring of the source revealed also a sharp drop of its soft X-ray flux right after the outburst, which is in drastic contrast to the behaviour during the previous outburst when the pulsar remained observable for years with only a minor flux decrease after the end of the outburst. This unexpected off state of the source lasted for at most 20 days after which SXP 1062 returned to the level observed during previous campaigns. We discuss this and other findings in context of the modern models of accretion onto strongly magnetized neutron stars.

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