Discovery of a new pulsating X-ray source with a 1549.1-s period, AX J183220-0840

Details Discovery of a new pulsating X-ray source with a 1549.1-s period, AX J183220-0840 Discovery of a new pulsating X-ray source with a 1549.1-s period, AX J183220-0840

2000-03-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0003448v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/312676

A new pulsating X-ray source, AX J183220-0840, with a 1549.1-s period was discovered at R.A.= 18h32m20s and Dec.=-8d40'30'' (J2000, uncertainty=0.6degree) during an ASCA observation on the Galactic plane. The source was observed two times, in 1997 and in 1999. A phase-averaged X-ray flux of 1.1E-11 ergs cm-2 s-1 and pulsation period of 1549.1+/-0.4 s were consistently obtained from these two observations. The X-ray spectrum was represented by a flat absorbed power-law with a photon-index of =~0.8 and an absorption column density of =~1.3E22 cm-2. Also, a signature of iron K-shell line emission with a centroid of 6.7 keV and an equivalent width of approximately 450 eV was detected. From the pulsation period and the iron-line feature, AX J183220-0840 is likely to be a magnetic white dwarf binary with a complexly absorbed thermal spectrum with a temperature of about 10 keV.

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