期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 831, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/831/2/L14
关键词
accretion, accretion disks; pulsars: individual (NGC 7793 P13); stars: neutron; X-rays: binaries
资金
- STFC Ernest Rutherford fellowship
- ERC [340442]
- French Space Agency (CNES)
- NASA
- ESA Member States
- STFC [ST/N004027/1, ST/M005283/1, ST/M005283/2] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/N004027/1] Funding Source: researchfish
We report the detection of coherent pulsations from the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) NGC 7793 P13. The approximate to 0.42 s nearly sinusoidal pulsations were initially discovered in broadband X-ray observations using XMM-Newton and NuSTAR taken in 2016. We subsequently also found pulsations in archival XMM-Newton data taken in 2013 and 2014. The significant (>> 5 sigma) detection of coherent pulsations demonstrates that the compact object in P13 is a neutron star, and given the observed peak luminosity of approximate to 10(40) erg s(-1) (assuming isotropy), it is well above the Eddington limit for a 1.4 M circle dot accretor. This makes P13 the second ULX known to be powered by an accreting neutron star. The pulse period varies between epochs, with a slow but persistent spin-up over the 2013-2016 period. This spin-up indicates a magnetic field of B approximate to 1.5 x. 10(12) G, typical of many Galactic accreting pulsars. The most likely explanation for the extreme luminosity is a high degree of beaming; however, this is difficult to reconcile with the sinusoidal pulse profile.
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