2022ApJ...940...70M

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2022ApJ...940...70M - Astrophys. J., 940, 70 (2022/November-3)

Observations of 4U 1626-67 with the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer.

MARSHALL H.L., NG M., ROGANTINI D., HEYL J., TSYGANKOV S.S., POUTANEN J., COSTA E., ZANE S., MALACARIA C., AGUDO I., ANTONELLI L.A., BACHETTI M., BALDINI L., BAUMGARTNER W.H., BELLAZZINI R., BIANCHI S., BONGIORNO S.D., BONINO R., BREZ A., BUCCIANTINI N., CAPITANIO F., CASTELLANO S., CAVAZZUTI E., CIPRINI S., DE ROSA A., DEL MONTE E., DI GESU L., DI LALLA N., DI MARCO A., DONNARUMMA I., DOROSHENKO V., DOVCIAK M., EHLERT S.R., ENOTO T., EVANGELISTA Y., FABIANI S., FERRAZZOLI R., GARCIA J.A., GUNJI S., HAYASHIDA K., IWAKIRI W., JORSTAD S.G., KARAS V., KITAGUCHI T., KOLODZIEJCZAK J.J., KRAWCZYNSKI H., LA MONACA F., LATRONICO L., LIODAKIS I., MALDERA S., MANFREDA A., MARIN F., MARINUCCI A., MARSCHER A.P., MATT G., MITSUISHI I., MIZUNO T., MULERI F., NG C.-Y., O'DELL S.L., OMODEI N., OPPEDISANO C., PAPITTO A., PAVLOV G.G., PEIRSON A.L., PERRI M., PESCE-ROLLINS M., PETRUCCI P.-O., PILIA M., POSSENTI A., PUCCETTI S., RAMSEY B.D., RANKIN J., RATHEESH A., ROMANI R.W., SGRO C., SLANE P., SOFFITTA P., SPANDRE G., TAMAGAWA T., TAVECCHIO F., TAVERNA R., TAWARA Y., TENNANT A.F., THOMAS N.E., TOMBESI F., TROIS A., TUROLLA R., VINK J., WEISSKOPF M.C., WU K., XIE F. (The IXPE Collaboration), SCHULZ N.S. and CHAKRABARTY D.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present measurements of the polarization of X-rays in the 2-8 keV band from the pulsar in the ultracompact low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1626-67 using data from the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The 7.66 s pulsations were clearly detected throughout the IXPE observations as well as in the NICER soft X-ray observations, which we used as the basis for our timing analysis and to constrain the spectral shape over the 0.4-10 keV energy band. Chandra HETGS high-resolution X-ray spectra were also obtained near the times of the IXPE observations for firm spectral modeling. We found an upper limit on the pulse-averaged linear polarization of <4% (at 95% confidence). Similarly, there was no significant detection of polarized flux in pulse phase intervals when subdividing the bandpass by energy. However, spectropolarimetric modeling over the full bandpass in pulse phase intervals provided a marginal detection of polarization of the power-law spectral component at the 4.8% ± 2.3% level (90% confidence). We discuss the implications concerning the accretion geometry onto the pulsar, favoring two-component models of the pulsed emission.

Abstract Copyright: © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Polarimetry - Spectropolarimetry - Pulsars - Low-mass x-ray binary stars

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Number of rows : 5
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA 		ICRS (J2000)
DEC 		Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026 		#notes
1 V* V779 Cen HXB 11 21 15.0920532528 -60 37 25.630264596   14.4 12.27     O9III/Veq 1159 0
2 V* V850 Cen HXB 13 01 17.0968941216 -61 36 06.637549788   15.6 14.40     B2Vne 361 0
3 V* KZ TrA LXB 16 32 16.79 -67 27 39.3 17.40 18.60 18.5     ~ 626 1
4 V* HZ Her LXB 16 57 49.8110126616 +35 20 32.486555472 11.90 14.89 13.63 13.88   B3/6ep 2172 0
5 V* V2246 Cyg HXB 20 32 15.2749858128 +37 38 14.843024844   22.16 19.41 17.32 15.18 B0Ve 480 0

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