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2023MNRAS.519.5402Y - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 519, 5402-5409 (2023/March-2)

Discovery of two cyclotron resonance scattering features in X-ray pulsar cen X-3 by Insight-HXMT.

YANG W., WANG W., LIU Q., CHEN X., WU H.J., TIAN P.F. and CHEN J.S.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present the results of the neutron star X-ray binary system Cen X-3 performed by Insight-HXMT with two observations during 2017 and 2018. During these two observations, the source reached a X-ray luminosity of ∼1038 erg s–1 from 2-105 keV. The analysis of the broadband X-ray spectrum reports the presence of two cyclotron resonance scattering features (CRSFs) with the fundamental line at ∼ 28 keV and the harmonic line at ∼47 keV. The multiple lines exist by fittings with different continuum models, like the absorbed negative and positive power-law with an exponential cutoff (NPEX) model and a power-law with high energy exponential cutoff model. This is the first time that both fundamental and harmonic lines are detected in Cen X-3. We also show evidence of two cyclotron lines in the phase-resolved spectrum of Cen X-3. The CRSF and continuum spectral parameters show evolution with the pulse profile, and the two line centroid energy ratio does not change significantly and locates in a narrow value range of 1.6-1.7 over the pulse phase. The implications of the discovering two cyclotron absorption features and phase-resolved spectral properties are discussed.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): stars: magnetic field - stars: neutron - pulsars: individual: Cen X-3 - X-rays: binaries

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