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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 785, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/785/2/131
Keywords
accretion; accretion disks; binaries: close; pulsars: individual (PSR J1023+0038)
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- HK Government [HKU7009 11P]
- National Science Council of the Republic of China (Taiwan) [NSC100-2628-M-007-002-MY3, NSC100-2923-M-007-001-MY3, NSC101-2119-M-008-007-MY3, NSC101-2112-M-007-022-MY3]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2011-0023383]
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Recent observations strongly suggest that themillisecond pulsar binary PSR J1023+0038 has developed an accretion disk since 2013 June. We present amulti-wavelength analysis of PSR J1023+0038, which reveals that (1) its gamma-rays suddenly brightened within a few days in 2013 June/July and has remained at a high gamma-ray state for several months; (2) both UV and X-ray fluxes have increased by roughly an order of magnitude; and (3) the spectral energy distribution has changed significantly after the gamma-ray sudden flux change. Time variabilities associated with UV and X-rays are on the order of 100-500 s and 50-100 s, respectively. Our model suggests that a newly formed accretion disk, due to the sudden increase of the stellar wind, could explain the changes of all these observed features. The increase of UV is emitted from the disk, and a new component in gamma-rays is produced by inverse Compton scattering between the new UV component and pulsar wind. The increase of X-rays results from the enhancement of injection pulsar wind energy into the intra-binary shock due to the increase of the stellar wind. We also predict that the radio pulses may be blocked by the evaporated winds from the disk, and the pulsar is still powered by rotation.
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