INTEGRAL spectroscopy of the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294 in outburst

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2005-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503292v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted for publication on A&A, 7 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20042575

The fourth transient accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294 was observed during its February/March 2003 outburst by INTEGRAL, partly simultaneously with the XMM-Newton and RXTE satellites. We present here the first study of the 0.5-200 keV broad-band spectra of the source. On February 28, the source spectrum was consistent with thermal Comptonization by electrons of temperature \~40 keV, considerably larger than the value (~10 keV) previously derived from the low energy XMM-Newton data alone. The source is detected by INTEGRAL up to 200 keV with a luminosity in the energy band (0.1-200) keV of 1.3 x 10E37 erg/s (assuming a distance of 8 kpc). 22 days later the luminosity dropped to 3.6 x 10E36 erg/s. A re-analysis of XMM-Newton data yields the orbital Doppler variations of the pulse period and refines the previous ephemeris. For this source having shortest orbital period of any known binary radio or X-ray millisecond pulsar, we constrain the companion mass Mc < 0.022 Msun, assuming minimum mass transfer driven by gravitational radiation. Only evolved dwarfs with a C/O composition are consistent with the Roche lobe and gravitational radiation constraints, while He dwarfs require an unlikely low inclination.

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