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2017MNRAS.466.4991M - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 466, 4991-5002 (2017/April-3)

NuSTAR and Swift joint view of neutron star X-ray binary 4U 1728-34: disc reflection in the island and lower banana states.

MONDAL A.S., PAHARI M., DEWANGAN G.C., MISRA R. and RAYCHAUDHURI B.

Abstract (from CDS):

We analyse two simultaneous NuSTAR and Swift data of the Atoll-type neutron star (NS) X-ray binary 4U 1728-34 observed on 2013 October 1 and 3. We infer that the first and the second observations belong to the island state and the lower banana state, respectively. During island state, four type-I X-ray bursts are observed within 60 ks exposure. From the time-resolved spectral analysis of each burst with NuSTAR, the blackbody temperature kTbb are found to vary between 1.3 and 3.0 keV, while the blackbody normalizations (km/10 kpc)2 vary in the range 20-200, which translates to blackbody radii of 3.5-7.4 km for an assumed distance of 5 kpc. The persistent, joint energy spectra from Swift and NuSTAR for both observations in the energy band 1-79 keV are well described with thermal emission from the NS surface (kTbb ≃ 1-2.5 keV), Comptonized emission of thermal seed photons from the hot boundary layer/corona and the strong reflection component from the accretion disc. We detect a broad iron line in the 5-8 keV band and reflection hump in the 15-30 keV band modelled by the relxill reflection model. Joint spectral fitting constrains the inclination angle of the binary system and inner disc radius to be 22°-40° and (2.0-4.3) x RISCO, respectively. We estimate the magnetic field to be (1.8-6.5) x 108 G. The X-ray luminosity of the source during the island and lower banana states are found to be LX = 1.1 and 1.6 x 1037 erg s–1, respectively, which correspond to ∼6 per cent and ∼9 per cent of the Eddington luminosity.

Abstract Copyright: © 2017 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): accretion, accretion discs - stars: neutron - X-rays: binaries - X-rays: individual: 4U 1728-34 - X-rays: individual: 4U 1728-34

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