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2020ApJ...900...41L - Astrophys. J., 900, 41-41 (2020/September-1)

A peculiar cyclotron line near 16 keV detected in the 2015 outburst of 4U 0115+63?

LIU B.-S., TAO L., ZHANG S.-N., LI X.-D., GE M.-Y., QU J.-L., SONG L.-M., JI L., ZHANG S., SANTANGELO A. and WANG L.-J.

Abstract (from CDS):

In 2015 October, the Be/X-ray binary 4U 0115+63 underwent a type II outburst, reaching an X-ray luminosity of ∼1038 erg s–1. During the outburst, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) performed two Target of Opportunity observations. Using the broadband spectra from NuSTAR (3-79 keV), we have detected multiple cyclotron lines of the source, i.e., ∼12, 16, 22, and 33/35 keV. Obviously, the 16 keV line is not a harmonic component of the 12 keV line. As described by the phase-dependent equivalent widths of these cyclotron lines, the 16 keV and 12 keV lines are two different fundamental lines. In our work, we apply the two-poles cyclotron line model to the observation, i.e., the two line sets are formed at the same altitude (∼0.2 km over the NS surface) of different magnetic poles, with ∼1.1 x 1012 and 1.4 x 1012 G in two poles, respectively.

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Journal keyword(s): Accretion - Neutron stars - High mass x-ray binary stars - Binary pulsars

Simbad objects: 5

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