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2018MNRAS.479L...1Y - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 479, L1-L6 (2018/September-1)

Anticorrelation between X-ray luminosity and pulsed fraction in the Small Magellanic Cloud pulsar SXP 1323.

YANG J., ZEZAS A., COE M.J., DRAKE J.J., HONG J., LAYCOCK S.G.T. and WIK D.R.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the evidence for the anticorrelation between pulsed fraction (PF) and luminosity of the X-ray pulsar SXP 1323, found for the first time in a luminosity range 1035-1037 erg s–1 from observations spanning 15 yr. The phenomenon of a decrease in X-ray PF when the source flux increases has been observed in our pipeline analysis of other X-ray pulsars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. It is expected that the luminosity under a certain value decreases as the PF decreases due to the propeller effect. Above the propeller region, an anticorrelation between the PF and the flux might occur either as a result of an increase in the unpulsed component of the total emission or a decrease of the pulsed component. Additional modes of accretion may also be possible, such as spherical accretion and a change in emission geometry. At higher mass accretion rates, the accretion disc could also extend closer to the neutron star surface, where a reduced inner radius leads to hotter inner disc emission. These modes of plasma accretion may affect the change in the beam configuration to fan-beam dominant emission.

Abstract Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): pulsars: individual: SXP 1323 - X-rays: binaries

Simbad objects: 17

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