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2021ApJ...912..120B - Astrophys. J., 912, 120-120 (2021/May-2)

Long-term coherent timing of the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17062-6143.

BULT P., STROHMAYER T.E., MALACARIA C., NG M. and WADIASINGH Z.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report on a coherent timing analysis of the 163 Hz accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J17062-6143. Using data collected with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer and XMM-Newton, we investigated the pulsar evolution over a time span of four years. We obtained a unique phase-coherent timing solution for the stellar spin, finding the source to be spinning up at a rate of (3.77 ± 0.09) x 10–15 Hz s–1. We further find that the 0.4-6 keV pulse fraction varies gradually between 0.5% and 2.5% following a sinusoidal oscillation with a 1210 ± 40 day period. Finally, we supplemented this analysis with an archival Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observation and obtained a phase-coherent model for the binary orbit spanning 12 yr, yielding an orbital period-derivative measurement of (8.4 ± 2.0) x 10–12 s s–1. This large orbital period derivative is inconsistent with a binary evolution that is dominated by gravitational wave emission and is suggestive of highly nonconservative mass transfer in the binary system.

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Journal keyword(s): Millisecond pulsars - Low-mass x-ray binary stars

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