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A multiwavelength study of SXP 1062, the long-period X-ray pulsar associated with a supernova remnant.
- Source :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Apr2018, Vol. 475 Issue 2, p2809-2821, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- SXP 1062 is a Be X-ray binary (BeXB) located in the Small Magellanic Cloud. It hosts a longperiodX- ray pulsar and is likely associated with the supernova remnant MCSNRJ0127-7332. In this work we present a multiwavelength view on SXP 1062 in different luminosity regimes. We consider monitoring campaigns in optical (OGLE survey) and X-ray (Swift telescope). During these campaigns a tight coincidence of X-ray and optical outbursts is observed. We interpret this as typical Type I outbursts as often detected in BeXBs at periastron passage of the neutron star (NS). To study different X-ray luminosity regimes in depth, during the source quiescence we observed it with XMM-Newton while Chandra observations followed an X-ray outburst. Nearly simultaneously with Chandra observations in X-rays, in optical the RSS/SALT telescope obtained spectra of SXP 1062. On the basis of our multiwavelength campaign we propose a simple scenario where the disc of the Be star is observed face-on, while the orbit of the NS is inclined with respect to the disc. According to the model of quasi-spherical settling accretion our estimation of the magnetic field of the pulsar in SXP 1062 does not require an extremely strong magnetic field at the present time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00358711
- Volume :
- 475
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 128157581
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3127