Spectral and timing properties of IGR J00291+5934 during its 2015 outburst

Abstract

We report on the spectral and timing properties of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J00291+5934 observed by XMM-Newton and NuSTAR during its 2015 outburst. The source is in a hard state dominated at high energies by a comptonization of soft photons ($\sim 0.9$ keV) by an electron population with kT${}_e\sim 30$ keV, and at lower energies by a blackbody component with kT$\sim 0.5$ keV. A moderately broad, neutral Fe emission line and four narrow absorption lines are also found. By investigating the pulse phase evolution, we derived the best-fitting orbital solution for the 2015 outburst. Comparing the updated ephemeris with those of the previous outbursts, we set a $3\sigma$ confidence level interval $-6.6\times 10^{-13}$ s/s $<{\dot{P}}_{orb}<6.5\times 10^{-13}$ s/s on the orbital period derivative. Moreover, we investigated the pulse profile dependence on energy finding a peculiar behaviour of the pulse fractional amplitude and lags as a function of energy. We performed a phase-resolved spectroscopy showing that the blackbody component tracks remarkably well the pulse-profile, indicating that this component resides at the neutron star surface (hot-spot).

arXiv comment9 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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