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HST spectrum and timing of the ultra-compact X-ray binary candidate 47 Tuc X9
العنوان: | HST spectrum and timing of the ultra-compact X-ray binary candidate 47 Tuc X9 |
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المؤلفون: | Tudor, V., Miller-Jones, J. C. A., Knigge, C., Maccarone, T. J., Tauris, T. M., Bahramian, A., Chomiuk, L., Heinke, C. O., Sivakoff, G. R., Strader, J., Plotkin, R. M., Soria, R., Albrow, M. D., Anderson, G. E., Berg, M. van den, Bernardini, F., Bogdanov, S., Britt, C. T., Russell, D. M., Zurek, D. R. |
سنة النشر: | 2018 |
المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
الوصف: | To confirm the nature of the donor star in the ultra-compact X-ray binary candidate 47 Tuc X9, we obtained optical spectra (3,000$-$10,000 {\AA}) with the Hubble Space Telescope / Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. We find no strong emission or absorption features in the spectrum of X9. In particular, we place $3\sigma$ upper limits on the H$\alpha$ and HeII $\lambda 4686$ emission line equivalent widths $-$EW$_{\mathrm{H\alpha}} \lesssim 14$ {\AA} and $-$EW$_{\mathrm{HeII}} \lesssim 9$ {\AA}, respectively. This is much lower than seen for typical X-ray binaries at a similar X-ray luminosity (which, for $L_{\mathrm{2-10 keV}} \approx 10^{33}-10^{34}$ erg s$^{-1}$ is typically $-$EW$_{\mathrm{H\alpha}} \sim 50$ {\AA}). This supports our previous suggestion (by Bahramian et al.) of an H-poor donor in X9. We perform timing analysis on archival far-ultraviolet, $V$ and $I$-band data to search for periodicities. In the optical bands we recover the seven-day superorbital period initially discovered in X-rays, but we do not recover the orbital period. In the far-ultraviolet we find evidence for a 27.2 min period (shorter than the 28.2 min period seen in X-rays). We find that either a neutron star or black hole could explain the observed properties of X9. We also perform binary evolution calculations, showing that the formation of an initial black hole / He-star binary early in the life of a globular cluster could evolve into a present-day system such as X9 (should the compact object in this system indeed be a black hole) via mass-transfer driven by gravitational wave radiation. Comment: 20 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS |
نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/sty284 |
URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1802.00161 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.1802.00161 |
قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/sty284 |
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