Spectral and timing analysis of BeXRB eRASSU J050810.4-660653 recently discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)

Abstract

We have studied the Be/X-ray binary (BeXRB) pulsar eRASSU J050810.4-660653 recently discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Timing and spectral features of the source have been discussed in detail using NuSTAR \& XMM-Newton observations. Coherent pulsation of the source was detected at $\sim 40.578\pm 0.001$ s using NuSTAR observation. We analyzed pulse profiles of the source in different energy bands using NuSTAR \& XMM-Newton data. The pulse-profile evolved with time but was generally suggestive of a pencil-beam dominated pattern, which combined with the measured luminosity, indicates that the source may be accreting in the sub-critical regime. The pulse fraction follows a linearly increasing trend with photon energy and is anti-correlated with luminosity. In the 1 year interval between the XMM and NuSTAR observations the pulse period shortened by 0.021 s which could be consistent with spin-up or orbital Doppler effect. The average flux of the source in (3-50) keV energy range is found to be $\sim 5.56\times 10^{-11}ergc{m}^{-2}{s}^{-1}$ and the corresponding luminosity is $\sim 1.66\times 10^{37}erg{s}^{-1}$. The variation of spectral parameters with pulse phase is studied using phase resolved spectroscopy which reveals that the observed photon index becomes harder with increasing flux.

8 pages, 9 figures , Accepted in MNRAS, 2022

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