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2026ApJ...998..184C - Astrophys. J., 998, 184 (2026/February-2)

Discovery of a New Spectral Transition in Swift J0243.6+6124 in the Sub-Eddington Regime.

CHEN B.-Y., ZHANG S., SHUI Q.-C., WANG P.-J., JI L., KONG L.-D., ZHANG S.-N., FENG H., CHEN Y.-P., GE M.-Y., PENG J.-Q. and LI W.-Z.

Abstract (from CDS):

We have conducted a detailed spectral analysis of Swift J0243.6+6124 in its sub-Eddington regime, as observed by Insight-HXMT and NICER during a series of outbursts including the giant one in 2018, and discovered a new transition at Lt ∼ 4.5 × 1037 erg s–1 accompanied by the evolution of the spectral parameters, in particular a significant turnover of the blackbody normalization. Lt in the sub-Eddington regime represents the fifth transition luminosity identified so far, further increasing the complexity of Swift J0243.6+6124, and it may be explained by introducing a multipolar magnetic field configuration, where weak (∼2.8 × 1012 G) and strong (∼1.6 × 1013 G) magnetic poles govern the emission at different accretion rates. Such a magnetic field configuration is equivalent to a relatively weak pure dipole magnetic field of ∼6.6 × 1012 G on the scale of the magnetospheric radius, and allows the local magnetic field of the neutron star to exceed 1013 G.

Abstract Copyright: © 2026. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

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

Simbad objects: 5

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