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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 472, Issue 3, Pages 3706-3721Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2241
Keywords
stars: neutron; pulsars: general; globular clusters: individual: NGC 104
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- MITACS
- NSERC Discovery Grant
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement
- European Research Council [279702]
- Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy
- NASA Chandra grant - Columbia University [GO4-15029A]
- NASA [NAS803060]
- Italian CNAA grant
- MURST(COFIN) grant
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We combined Chandra ACIS observations of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc) from 2000, 2002 and 2014-2015 to create a deeper X-ray source list, and study some of the faint radio millisecond pulsars (MSPs) present in this cluster. We have detected 370 X-ray sources within the half-mass radius (2.79 arcsec) of the cluster, 81 of which are newly identified, by including new data and using improved source detection techniques. The majority of the newly identified sources are in the crowded core region, indicating cluster membership. We associate five of the new X-ray sources with chromospherically active BY Dra or W UMa variables identified by Albrow et al. We present alternative positions derived from two methods, centroiding and image reconstruction, for faint, crowded sources. We are able to extract X-ray spectra of the recently discovered MSPs 47 Tuc aa, 47 Tuc ab, the newly timed MSP 47 Tuc Z, and the newly resolved MSPs 47 Tuc S and 47 Tuc F. Generally, they are well fitted by blackbody or neutron star atmosphere models, with temperatures, luminosities and emitting radii similar to those of other known MSPs in 47 Tuc, though 47 Tuc aa and 47 Tuc ab reach lower X-ray luminosities. We limit X-ray emission from the full surface of the rapidly spinning (542 Hz) MSP 47 Tuc aa, and use this limit to put an upper bound for amplitude of r-mode oscillations in this pulsar as a < 2.5 x 10(-9) and constrain the shape of the r-mode instability window.
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