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A multi-wavelength view of distinct accretion regimes in the pulsating ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 1313 X-2
| العنوان: | A multi-wavelength view of distinct accretion regimes in the pulsating ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 1313 X-2 |
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| المؤلفون: | Sathyaprakash, Rajath, Roberts, Timothy P., Grisè, Fabien, Kaaret, Philip, Ambrosi, Elena, Done, Christine, Gladstone, Jeanette C., Kajava, Jari, Soria, Roberto, Zampieri, Luca |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| الوصف: | NGC 1313 X-2 is one of the few known pulsating ultraluminous X-ray sources (PULXs), and so is thought to contain a neutron star that accretes at highly super-Eddington rates. However, the physics of this accretion remains to be determined. Here we report the results of two simultaneous XMM-Newton and HST observations of this PULX taken to observe two distinct X-ray behaviours as defined from its Swift light curve. We find that the X-ray spectrum of the PULX is best described by the hard ultraluminous (HUL) regime during the observation taken in the lower flux, lower variability amplitude behaviour; its spectrum changes to a broadened disc during the higher flux, higher variability amplitude epoch. However, we see no accompanying changes in the optical/UV fluxes, with the only difference being a reduction in flux in the near-IR as the X-ray flux increased. We attempt to fit irradiation models to explain the UV/optical/IR fluxes but they fail to provide meaningful constraints. Instead, a physical model for the system leads us to conclude that the optical light is dominated by a companion O/B star, albeit with an IR excess that may be indicative of a jet. We discuss how these results may be consistent with the precession of the inner regions of the accretion disc leading to changes in the observed X-ray properties, but not the optical, and whether we should expect to observe reprocessed emission from ULXs. Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Any comments welcome |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stac402 |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.06986 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2202.06986 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stac402 |
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