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脉动超亮X射线源NGC 1313 X-2中不同吸积状态的多波长观测

A multi-wavelength view of distinct accretion regimes in the pulsating ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 1313 X-2

Rajath Sathyaprakash, Timothy P. Roberts, Fabien Grisè, Philip Kaaret, Elena Ambrosi, Christine Done, Jeanette C. Gladstone, Jari Kajava, Roberto Soria, Luca Zampieri

摘要:

NGC 1313 X-2是少数已知的脉动超亮X射线源(PULXs)之一,因此被认为包含一颗以超爱丁顿速率吸积的中子星。然而,这种吸积的物理性质仍有待确定。在这里,我们报告的结果,两个同时XMM牛顿和HST观测这PULX采取观察两个不同的X射线行为定义从其斯威夫特光曲线。我们发现,在较低通量、较低变率振幅行为的观察期间,PULX的X射线谱最好地由硬超铝(HUL)状态描述;在较高通量、较高变率振幅时期,其谱改变为加宽的圆盘。然而,我们没有看到光学/UV通量的伴随变化,唯一的区别是随着X射线通量的增加,近红外通量减少。我们试图拟合辐照模型来解释UV/光学/IR通量,但它们未能提供有意义的约束。相反,该系统的物理模型使我们得出结论,光学光由伴星O/B星主导,尽管红外过量可能表明喷流。我们将讨论这些结果可能是一致的进动的吸积盘的内部区域导致所观察到的X射线属性的变化,但不是光学,以及我们是否应该期望观察再处理发射ULXs。

英文摘要:

NGC 1313 X-2 is one of the few known pulsating ultraluminous X-ray sources (PULXs), and so is thought to contain a neutron star that accretes at highly super-Eddington rates. However, the physics of this accretion remains to be determined. Here we report the results of two simultaneous XMM-Newton and HST observations of this PULX taken to observe two distinct X-ray behaviours as defined from its Swift light curve. We find that the X-ray spectrum of the PULX is best described by the hard ultraluminous (HUL) regime during the observation taken in the lower flux, lower variability amplitude behaviour; its spectrum changes to a broadened disc during the higher flux, higher variability amplitude epoch. However, we see no accompanying changes in the optical/UV fluxes, with the only difference being a reduction in flux in the near-IR as the X-ray flux increased. We attempt to fit irradiation models to explain the UV/optical/IR fluxes but they fail to provide meaningful constraints. Instead, a physical model for the system leads us to conclude that the optical light is dominated by a companion O/B star, albeit with an IR excess that may be indicative of a jet. We discuss how these results may be consistent with the precession of the inner regions of the accretion disc leading to changes in the observed X-ray properties, but not the optical, and whether we should expect to observe reprocessed emission from ULXs.

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