Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-04-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Submitted to A&A, this version to appear in PhD thesis, 19 pages, 11 figures, 8 tables
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:200809772
We present detailed spectral and temporal characteristics over the whole X-ray band. For this purpose data have been used from INTEGRAL, RXTE and XMM-Newton. The INTEGRAL hard X-ray (>10 keV) time-averaged total spectrum, can be described by a power law with a photon index Gamma = 1.13 +/- 0.06 and extends to ~175 keV. No evidence for a spectral break is found. No significant long-term time variability has been detected above 20 keV. Pulsed emission is measured up to 270 keV (12.3 sigma; 20-270 keV). Three different pulse components can be recognized in the pulse profiles: 1) a hard pulse which contributes above ~4 keV, 2) a softer pulse not contributing in the hard X-ray domain and 3) a very soft pulse component below 2 keV. Detailed phase-resolved spectroscopy of the pulsed emission confirms long-term stability. The spectral shape gradually changes with phase from a soft single power law to a complex multi-component shape and then to a hard single power law. The spectrum switches from a very hard (Gamma = 0.99 +/- 0.05) to a very soft (Gamma = 3.58 +/- 0.34) single power-law shape within a 0.1-wide phase interval. We identify three independent components. The three shapes are a soft power law, a hard power law and a curved shape. The phase distributions of the normalizations of these spectral components form three decoupled pulse profiles. The soft component peaks around phase 0.4 while the other two components peak around phase 0.8. The width of the curved component (~0.25 in phase) is about half the width of the hard component.
den Hartog Peter R.
Hermsen Willem
Kuiper Lucien
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