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2017MNRAS.466.2143D - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 466, 2143-2150 (2017/April-1)

Luminosity dependence of the cyclotron line and evidence for the accretion regime transition in V 0332+53.

DOROSHENKO V., TSYGANKOV S.S., MUSHTUKOV A.A., LUTOVINOV A.A., SANTANGELO A., SULEIMANOV V.F. and POUTANEN J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report on the analysis of NuSTAR observations of the Be-transient X-ray pulsar V 0332+53 during the giant outburst in 2015 and another minor outburst in 2016. We confirm the cyclotron-line energy-luminosity correlation previously reported in the source and the line energy decrease during the giant outburst. Based on 2016 observations, we find that a year later the line energy has increased again essentially reaching the pre-outburst values. We discuss this behaviour and conclude that it is likely caused by a change of the emission region geometry rather than previously suggested accretion-induced decay of the neutron stars magnetic field. At lower luminosities, we find for the first time a hint of departure from the anticorrelation of line energy with flux, which we interpret as a transition from super- to sub-critical accretion associated with the disappearance of the accretion column. Finally, we confirm and briefly discuss the orbital modulation observed in the outburst light curve of the source.

Abstract Copyright: © 2016 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): X-rays: binaries - X-rays: individual: V 0332+53 - X-rays: individual: V 0332+53

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