Soft and Hard X-Ray Emissions from the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 4U 0142+61 Observed with Suzaku

Details Soft and Hard X-Ray Emissions from the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 4U 0142+61 Observed with Suzaku Soft and Hard X-Ray Emissions from the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 4U 0142+61 Observed with Suzaku

2011-02-07

arxiv.org/abs/1102.1213v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

24 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

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The anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U 0142+61 was observed with Suzaku on 2007 August 15 for a net exposure of -100 ks, and was detected in a 0.4 to ~70 keV energy band. The intrinsic pulse period was determined as 8.68878 \pm 0.00005 s, in agreement with an extrapolation from previous measurements. The broadband Suzaku spectra enabled a first simultaneous and accurate measurement of the soft and hard components of this object by a single satellite. The former can be reproduced by two blackbodies, or slightly better by a resonant cyclotron scattering model. The hard component can be approximated by a power-law of photon index \Gamma h ~0.9 when the soft component is represented by the resonant cyclotron scattering model, and its high-energy cutoff is constrained as >180 keV. Assuming an isotropic emission at a distance of 3.6 kpc, the unabsorbed 1-10 keV and 10-70 keV luminosities of the soft and hard components are calculated as 2.8e+35 erg s^{-1} and 6.8e+34 erg s^{-1}, respectively. Their sum becomes ~10^3 times as large as the estimated spin-down luminosity. On a time scale of 30 ks, the hard component exhibited evidence of variations either in its normalization or pulse shape.

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