The Steady Spin Down Rate of 4U 1907+09

Details The Steady Spin Down Rate of 4U 1907+09 The Steady Spin Down Rate of 4U 1907+09

2000-11-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0011404v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 327 (2001) 1269

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04804.x

Using X-ray data from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), we report the pulse timing results of the accretion powered high mass X-ray binary (HMXRB) pulsar 4U 1907+09 covering a time span of almost two years. We measured three new pulse periods in addition to the previously measured four pulse periods. We are able to connect pulse arrival times in phase for more than a year. The source has been spinning down almost at a constant rate with a spin down rate of \dot \nu = (-3.54 \pm 0.02) \times 10^{-14} Hz s ^{-1} for more than 15 years. Residuals of pulse arrival times yield a very low level of random walk noise strengths \sim 2 \times 10^{-20} rad ^{2} sec ^{-3} on a time scale of 383 days, which is four decades lower than that of the HMXRB pulsar Vela X-1. The noise strength is only a factor of 5 greater than that of the low mass X-ray binary pulsar (LMXRB) 4U 1626-67. The low level of the timing noise and the very stable spin down rate of 4U 1907+09 makes this source unique among the HMXRBs, providing another example, in addition to 4U 1626-67, of long term quiet spin down from an accreting source. These examples show that the extended quiet spin down episodes observed in the anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) pulsars 1RXS J170849.0-400910 and 1E 2259+586 do not necessarly imply that these sources are not accreting pulsars.

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