NuSTAR detection of 4s Hard X-ray Lags from the Accreting Pulsar GS 0834-430
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Bachetti, Matteo
Miyasaka, Hiromasa
Harrison, Fiona A.
Furst, Felix
Barret, Didier
Bellm, Eric C.
Boggs, Steven E.
Chakrabarty, Deepto
Chenevez, Jerome
Christensen, Finn E.
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January 2014
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EPJ Web of Conferences
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EDP Sciences
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Bachetti, Matteo, Hiromasa Miyasaka, Fiona Harrison, Felix Fürst, Didier Barret, Eric C. Bellm, Steven E. Boggs, et al. “NuSTAR Detection of 4s Hard X-Ray Lags from the Accreting Pulsar GS 0834-430.” Edited by E. Bozzo, P. Kretschmar, M. Audard, M. Falanga, and C. Ferrigno. EPJ Web of Conferences 64 (2014): 06011.
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The NuSTAR hard X-ray telescope observed the transient Be/X-ray binary GS 0834–430 during its 2012 outburst. The source is detected between 3 – 79 keV with high statistical significance, and we were able to perform very accurate spectral and timing analysis. The phase-averaged spectrum is consistent with that observed in many other magnetized accreting pulsars. We fail to detect cyclotron resonance scattering features in either phase-averaged nor phase-resolved spectra that would allow us to constrain the pulsar’s magnetic field. We detect a pulse period of ~ 12:29 s in all energy bands. The pulse profile can be modeled with a double Gaussian and shows a strong and smooth hard lag of up to 0.3 cycles in phase, or about 4s between the pulse at ~ 3 and ≳ 30 keV. This is the first report of such a strong lag in high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) pulsars. Previously reported lags have been significantly smaller in phase and restricted to low-energies (E<10 keV). We investigate the possible mechanisms that might produce such lags. We find the most likely explanation for this effect to be a complex beam geometry.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20136406011
