The binary period and outburst behaviour of the SMC X-ray binary pulsar system SXP504

Details The binary period and outburst behaviour of the SMC X-ray binary pulsar system SXP504 The binary period and outburst behaviour of the SMC X-ray binary pulsar system SXP504

2005-05-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0505352v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 361 (2005) 743-747

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted by MNRAS. 1 LATEX page. 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09205.x

A probable binary period has been detected in the optical counterpart to the X-ray source CXOU J005455.6-724510 = RX J0054.9-7245 = AXJ0054.8-7244 = SXP504 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. This source was detected by Chandra on 04 Jul 2002 and subsequently observed by XMM-Newton on 18 Dec 2003. The source is coincident with an Optical Gravitational Lensing (OGLE) object in the lightcurves of which several optical outburst peaks are visible at ~ 268 day intervals. Timing analysis shows a period of 268.6 +/- 0.1 days at > 99% significance. Archival Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) data for the 504s pulse-period has revealed detections which correspond closely with predicted or actual peaks in the optical data. The relationship between this orbital period and the pulse period of 504s is within the normal variance found in the Corbet diagram.

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