A possible new dipping X-ray source in the field of M31

Details A possible new dipping X-ray source in the field of M31 A possible new dipping X-ray source in the field of M31

2004-01-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401299v1

Astron.Astrophys. 419 (2004) 1045-1056

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in A&A, 16 pages, 8 postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20040099

We report the discovery of the new dipping X-ray source, XMMU J004308.6+411247, in M31, during a systematic search for periodicities in XMM-Newton archival observations. During the 2002 January 6 observation, the dips recur with a 107 min period and the source count rate is consistent with zero at the dip minimum. Dips with the same modulation and period are also observed during the XMM-Newton observations carried out on 2000 June 25, 2001 June 29 and the Chandra observation of 2001 October 5. The dips of XMMU J004308.6+411247 show no evidence of energy dependence. The average X-ray flux of XMMU J004308.6+411247 is nearly constant across different observations (~1.e37 erg/s for an assumed M31 distance of 780 kpc in the 0.3-10 keV band); the spectrum is well fit by an absorbed power law with a photon index ~0.8 or an absorbed Comptonization model. The photo-electric absorption is consistent with the Galactic value in the source direction. If XMMU J004308.6+411247 is located in M31 its properties are consistent with those of dipping low mass X-ray binaries in the Galaxy. Present observations do not allow to distinguish between dips and eclipses. The possibility that XMMU J004308.6+411247 is a foreground X-ray source cannot be ruled out at present; in this case the source might be a magnetic cataclysmic variable.

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