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

Authors :
Liu, Bai-Sheng
Tao, Lian
Zhang, Shuang-Nan
Li, Xiang-Dong
Ge, Ming-Yu
Qu, Jin-Lu
Song, Li-Ming
Ji, Long
Zhang, Shu
Santangelo, Andrea
Wang, Ling-Jun
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

In 2015 October, the Be/X-ray binary 4U 0115+63 underwent a type II outburst, reaching an X-ray luminosity of $\sim$ {\DP{38}\es}. During the outburst, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array ({\it NuSTAR}) performed two Target of Opportunity observations. Using the broad-band spectra from {\it NuSTAR} (3$-$79 keV), we have detected multiple cyclotron lines of the source, i.e., $\sim$ 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 ($\sim$ 0.2 km over the NS surface) of different magnetic poles, with $\sim$ {1.1\TDP{12}} and {1.4\TDP{12}} G in two poles, respectively.<br />Comment: 22 pages, 7 figures, in a newest revised version, accepted by ApJ

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1911.12025
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aba4a5