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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 806, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/806/2/148
Keywords
pulsars: general; pulsars: individual (PSR J1023+0038); stars: neutron; X-rays: binaries
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- NWO
- NWO Vidi
- ERC Grant DRAGNET [337062]
- ESA Member States
- NASA
- ESO Telescopes at the Paranal Observatory [ID 292-5011]
- Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research
- STFC
- national research councils
- STFC [ST/L000768/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/L000768/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The PSR J1023+0038 binary system hosts a neutron star and a low-mass, main-sequence-like star. It switches on year timescales between states as an eclipsing radio millisecond pulsar and a low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB). We present a multi-wavelength observational campaign of PSR J1023+0038 in its most recent LMXB state. Two long XMM-Newton observations reveal that the system spends similar to 70% of the time in a approximate to 3 x 10(33) erg s(-1) X-ray luminosity mode, which, as shown in Archibald et al., exhibits coherent X-ray pulsations. This emission is interspersed with frequent lower flux mode intervals with approximate to 5 x 10(32) erg s(-1) and sporadic flares reaching up to approximate to 10(34) erg s(-1), with neither mode showing significant X-ray pulsations. The switches between the three flux modes occur on timescales of order 10 s. In the UV and optical, we observe occasional intense flares coincident with those observed in X-rays. Our radio timing observations reveal no pulsations at the pulsar period during any of the three X-ray modes, presumably due to complete quenching of the radio emission mechanism by the accretion flow. Radio imaging detects highly variable, flat-spectrum continuum radiation from PSR J1023+0038, consistent with an origin in a weak jet-like outflow. Our concurrent X-ray and radio continuum data sets do not exhibit any correlated behavior. The observational evidence we present bears qualitative resemblance to the behavior predicted by some existing propeller and trapped disk accretion models although none can account for key aspects of the rich phenomenology of this system.
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