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2003ApJ...594..798B - Astrophys. J., 594, 798-811 (2003/September-2)

Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the globular cluster M 28 and its millisecond pulsar PSR B1821-24.

BECKER W., SWARTZ D.A., PAVLOV G.G., ELSNER R.F., GRINDLAY J., MIGNANI R., TENNANT A.F., BACKER D., PULONE L., TESTA V. and WEISSKOPF M.C.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report here the results of the first Chandra X-Ray Observatory observations of the globular cluster M28 (NGC 6626). We detect 46 X-ray sources, of which 12 lie within 1 core radius of the center. We show that the apparently extended X-ray core emission seen with the ROSAT HRI is due to the superposition of multiple discrete sources, for which we determine the X-ray luminosity function down to a limit of about 6x1030 ergs/s. We measure the radial distribution of the X-ray sources and fit it to a King profile finding a core radius of rc,X~11''. We measure for the first time the unconfused phase-averaged X-ray spectrum of the 3.05 ms pulsar B1821-24 and find that it is best described by a power law with photon index Γ≃1.2. We find marginal evidence of an emission line centered at 3.3 keV in the pulsar spectrum, which could be interpreted as cyclotron emission from a corona above the pulsar's polar cap if the magnetic field is strongly different from a centered dipole. The unabsorbed pulsar flux in the 0.5-8.0 keV band is ~3.5x10–13 ergs s–1/cm2. We present spectral analyses of the five brightest unidentified sources. Based on the spectral parameters of the brightest of these sources, we suggest that it is a transiently accreting neutron star in a low-mass X-ray binary, in quiescence. Fitting its spectrum with a hydrogen neutron star atmosphere model yields the effective temperature Teff=90+30–10eV and the radius RNS=14.5+6.9–3.8km. In addition to the resolved sources, we detect fainter, unresolved X-ray emission from the central core. Using the Chandra-derived positions, we also report on the result of searching archival Hubble Space Telescope data for possible optical counterparts.

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Journal keyword(s): Galaxy: Globular Clusters: Individual: Messier Number: M28 - Stars: Pulsars: General - Stars: Neutron - X-Rays: Stars

Nomenclature: Table 3: [BSP2003] NN (Nos 1-46).

Simbad objects: 56

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