Nikolaeva, S. M. and Krivonos, R. A. and Sazonov, S. Yu. (2018) Broadband Spectrum of the X-ray Binary M33 X-6 from NuSTAR and Swift-XRT Data: An Extragalactic Z-Source? Astronomy Letters, 44 (10). pp. 593-602. ISSN 1063-7737. doi:10.1134/S1063773718100055. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180912-093210194
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Abstract
We present the results of our study of the X-ray spectrum for the source X-6 in the nearby galaxy M33 obtained for the first time at energies above 10 keV from the data of the NuSTAR orbital telescope. The archival Swift–XRT data for energy coverage below 3 keV have been used, which has allowed the spectrum of M33 X-6 to be constructed in the wide energy range 0.3–20 keV. The spectrum of the source is well described by the model of an optically and geometrically thick accretion disk with a maximum temperature of ~2 keV and an inner radius of ~5 cos^(−1/2)θ km (where >θ is the unknown disk inclination angle with respect to the observer). There is also evidence for the presence of an additional hard component in the spectrum. The X-ray luminosity of M33 X-6 measured for the first time in the wide energy range 0.3–20 keV is ~2 × 10^(38) erg s^(−1), with the luminosity in the hard 10–20 keV X-ray band being ~10% of the source’s total luminosity. The results obtained suggest that X-6 may be a Z-source, i.e., an X-ray binary with subcritical accretion onto a weakly magnetized neutron star.
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Additional Information: | © 2018 Pleiades Publishing, Inc. Original Russian Text © S.M. Nikolaeva, R.A. Krivonos, S.Yu. Sazonov, 2018, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2018, Vol. 44, No. 10, pp. 648–658. First Online: 18 October 2018. The results presented in this paper were obtained with the Neil Gehrels (Swift) and NuSTAR orbital observatories. This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 14-12-01315). | ||||||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | mass accretion, X-ray binaries, nearby galaxies, galaxy M33 | ||||||||||||
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DOI: | 10.1134/S1063773718100055 | ||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | Nikolaeva, S.M., Krivonos, R.A. & Sazonov, S.Y. Astron. Lett. (2018) 44: 593. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773718100055 | ||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | Joy Painter | ||||||||||||
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