Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-10-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 8 figures, uses pasj00.cls; accepted by Publication of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Scientific paper
We report on the discovery of a transient X-ray pulsar, AX J1841.0-0536, serendipitously found in the Scutum arm region with the ASCA in two separate observations. The X-ray flux is very faint at the beginning, but exhibits two flares in the second observation. The flare flux increases by a factor 10 within only about 1 hr. Coherent pulsations with a period of 4.7394 plus/minus 0.0008 s were detected in the brightest flare phase. The X-ray spectra in the quiescent and flare phases were fitted with an absorbed power-law model with a photon index about 1 plus a narrow Gaussian line at the center energy of 6.4 keV. The interstellar column density of about 3E22 /cm2 may indicate that AX J1841.0-0536 is located at a tangential point of the Scutum arm at about 10 kpc distance. The coherent pulsations, large flux variability and the spectral shape suggest that AX J1841.0-0536 is a Be/X-ray binary pulsar.
Bamba Aya
Koyama Katsuji
Ueno Masaru
Yamauchi Shigeo
Yokogawa Jun
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