Journal article · Preprint article
Broadband x-ray properties of the gamma-ray binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856
Stanford University1
California Institute of Technology2
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics India3
University of California at Berkeley4
National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark5
Astrophysics, National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark6
Columbia University7
McGill University8
We report on NuSTAR, XMM-Newton, and Swift observations of the gamma-ray binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856. We measure the orbital period to be 16.544 ± 0.008 days using Swift data spanning 1900 days. The orbital period is different from the 2011 gamma-ray measurement which was used in the previous X-ray study of An et al. using ~400 days of Swift data, but is consistent with a new gamma-ray solution reported in 2014.
The light curve folded on the new period is qualitatively similar to that reported previously, having a spike at phase 0 and broad sinusoidal modulation. The X-ray flux enhancement at phase 0 occurs more regularly in time than was previously suggested. A spiky structure at this phase seems to be a persistent feature, although there is some variability.
Furthermore, we find that the source flux clearly correlates with the spectral hardness throughout all orbital phases, and that the broadband X-ray spectra measured with NuSTAR, XMM-Newton, and Swift are well fit with an unbroken power-law model. This spectrum suggests that the system may not be accretion-powered.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | American Astronomical Society |
Year: | 2015 |
Pages: | 166 |
ISSN: | 15384357 and 0004637x |
Types: | Journal article and Preprint article |
DOI: | 10.1088/0004-637X/806/2/166 |
ORCIDs: | 0000-0002-6389-9012 , 0000-0001-8018-5348 , 0000-0002-6112-7609 , Christensen, Finn Erland , 0000-0003-0388-0560 , 0000-0001-9345-0307 , 0000-0003-2686-9241 and 0000-0001-5506-9855 |