The hard X-ray emission of X Per

Details The hard X-ray emission of X Per The hard X-ray emission of X Per

2012-02-28

arxiv.org/abs/1202.6271v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Published as a letter in A&A; 4 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361/201218878

We present an analysis of the spectral properties of the peculiar X-ray pulsar X Per based on INTEGRAL observations. We show that the source exhibits an unusually hard spectrum and is confidently detected by ISGRI up to more than 100 keV. We find that two distinct components may be identified in the broadband 4-200 keV spectrum of the source. We interpret these components as the result of thermal and bulk Comptonization in the vicinity of the neutron star and describe them with several semi-phenomenological models. The previously reported absorption feature at ~30 keV is not required in the proposed scenario and therefore its physical interpretation must be taken with caution. We also investigated the timing properties of the source in the framework of existing torque theory, concluding that the observed phenomenology can be consistently explained if the magnetic field of the neutron star is ~10^14 G.

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