A possible cyclotron resonance scattering feature near 0.7 keV in X1822-371

Abstract

We analyse all available X-ray observations of X1822-371 made with XMM-Newton, Chandra, Suzaku and INTEGRAL satellites. The observations were not simultaneous. The Suzaku and INTEGRAL broad band energy coverage allows us to constrain the spectral shape of the continuum emission well. We use the model already proposed for this source, consisting of a Comptonised component absorbed by interstellar matter and partially absorbed by local neutral matter, and we added a Gaussian feature in absorption at $\sim 0.7$ keV. This addition significantly improves the fit and flattens the residuals between 0.6 and 0.8 keV. We interpret the Gaussian feature in absorption as a cyclotron resonant scattering feature (CRSF) produced close to the neutron star surface and derive the magnetic field strength at the surface of the neutron star, $(8.8\pm 0.3)\times 10^{10}$ G for a radius of 10 km. We derive the pulse period in the EPIC-pn data to be 0.5928850(6) s and estimate that the spin period derivative of X1822-371 is $(-2.55\pm 0.03)\times 10^{-12}$ s/s using all available pulse period measurements. Assuming that the intrinsic luminosity of X1822-371is at the Eddington limit and using the values of spin period and spin period derivative of the source, we constrain the neutron star and companion star masses. We find the neutron star and the companion star masses to be $1.69\pm 0.13$ M${}_{\odot }$ and $0.46\pm 0.02$ M${}_{\odot }$, respectively, for a neutron star radius of 10 km.In a self-consistent scenario in which X1822-371 is spinning-up and accretes at the Eddington limit, we estimate that the magnetic field of the neutron star is $(8.8\pm 0.3)\times 10^{10}$ G for a neutron star radius of 10 km. If our interpretation is correct, the Gaussian absorption feature near 0.7 keV is the very first detection of a CRSF below 1 keV in a LMXB. (abridged)

14 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

References in corpus (2)

• New ephemeris of the ADC source 2A 1822-371: a stable orbital-period derivative over 30 years
• Detailed study of the X-ray and Optical/UV orbital ephemeris of X1822-371

Cited by in corpus (11)

• Constraining values of bag constant for strange star candidates
• Low Mass X-ray Binaries: The Effects of the Magnetic Braking Prescription
• Strange stars in $f(\mathcal{R})$ gravity Palatini formalism and gravitational wave echoes from them
• Spectral analysis of the low-mass X-ray pulsar 4U 1822-371: Reflection component in a high-inclination system
• The birth mass function of neutron stars
• Updated orbital ephemeris of the ADC source X 1822-371: a stable orbital expansion over 40 years
• On the peculiar long-term orbital evolution of the eclipsing accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SWIFT J1749.4-2807
• NuSTAR observation of GRO J1744-28 at low mass accretion rate
• Anomalous orbital expansion of low-mass X-ray binary 2A 1822-371: the existence of a circumbinary disk?
• On the rapid orbital expansion in the compact low-mass X-ray binary 2A 1822$-$371
• Time Domain Astronomy with the THESEUS Satellite