Phase resolved spectroscopic study of the isolated neutron star RBS 1223 (1RXS J130848.6+212708)

Details Phase resolved spectroscopic study of the isolated neutron star RBS 1223 (1RXS J130848.6+212708) Phase resolved spectroscopic study of the isolated neutron star RBS 1223 (1RXS J130848.6+212708)

2011-08-19

arxiv.org/abs/1108.3897v1

Astron. Astrophys. 534, A74 (2011)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

7 pages, 7 figures, Astronomy and Astrophysics accepted

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361/201117548

The data from all observations of RBS 1223 (1RXS J130848.6+212708) conducted by XMM-Newton EPIC pn with the same instrumental setup in 2003-2007 were combined to form spin-phase resolved spectra. A number of complex models of neutron stars with strongly magnetized ($B_{pole} 10^{13}-10^{14}$ G) surface, with temperature and magnetic field distributions around magnetic poles, and partially ionized hydrogen thin atmosphere above it have been implemented into the X-ray spectral fitting package XSPEC for simultaneous fitting of phase-resolved spectra. A Markov-Chain-Monte-Carlo (MCMC) approach is also applied to verify results of fitting and estimating in multi parameter models. The spectra in different rotational phase intervals and light curves in different energy bands with high S/N ratio show a high complexity. The spectra can be parameterized with a Gaussian absorption line superimposed on a blackbody spectrum, while the light curves with double-humped shape show strong dependence of pulsed fraction upon the energy band (13%-42%), which indicates that radiation emerges from at least two emitting areas. A model with condensed iron surface and partially ionized hydrogen thin atmosphere above it allows us to fit simultaneously the observed general spectral shape and the broad absorption feature observed at 0.3 keV in different spin phases of RBS 1223. It allowed to constrain some physical properties of X-ray emitting areas, i.e. the temperatures ($T_{p1} ~ 105$ eV, $T_{p2} ~ 99$ eV), magnetic field strengths ($B_{p1}= B_{p2} ~ 8.6x10^{13}$G) at the poles, and their distributions parameters ($a_{1} 0.61, a_{2} 0.29$, indicating an absence of strong toroidal magnetic field component). In addition, it puts some constraints on the geometry of the emerging X-ray emission and gravitational redshift ($z=0.16^{+0.03}_{-0.01}$) of RBS 1223.

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