A Sparkler in the Fireworks Galaxy: Discovery of an Ultraluminous X-Ray Transient with a Strong Oxygen Line in NGC 6946
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| 作者 | Wang,Chen1; Soria,Roberto2,3,4; Wang,Junfeng1 |
| 刊名 | The Astrophysical Journal
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| 出版日期 | 2019-09-19 |
| 卷号 | 883期号:1 |
| ISSN号 | 0004-637X |
| 关键词 | accretion, accretion disks stars: winds, outflows X-rays: individual (NGC6946) |
| DOI | 10.3847/1538-4357/ab3c4d |
| 英文摘要 | Abstract We discovered and studied an ultraluminous X-ray source (CXOU J203451.1+601043) that appeared in the spiral galaxy NGC 6946 at some point between 2008 February and 2012 May and has remained at luminosities ≈2–4 × 1039 erg s?1 in all observations since then. Our spectral modeling shows that the source is generally soft but with spectral variability from epoch to epoch. Using standard empirical categories of the ultraluminous regimes, we found that CXOU J203451.1+601043 was consistent with a broadened disk state in 2012 but was in a transitional state approaching the supersoft regime in 2016, with substantial down-scattering of the hard photons (similar, for example, to the ultraluminous X-ray source in NGC 55). It has since hardened again in 2018–2019 without any significant luminosity change. The most outstanding property of CXOU J203451.1+601043 is a strong emission line at an energy of of (0.66?±?0.01) keV, with an equivalent width of ≈100 eV and de-absorbed line luminosity of ≈2 × 1038 erg s?1, seen when the continuum spectrum was softest. We identify the line as O viii Lyα (rest-frame energy of 0.654 keV); we interpret it as a strong indicator of a massive outflow. Our finding supports the connection between two independent observational signatures of the wind in super-Eddington sources: a lower temperature of the Comptonized component and the presence of emission lines in the soft X-ray band. We speculate that the donor star is oxygen-rich: a CO or O–Ne–Mg white dwarf in an ultracompact binary. If that is the case, the transient behavior of CXOU J203451.1+601043 raises intriguing theoretical questions. |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 出版者 | The American Astronomical Society |
| WOS记录号 | IOP:0004-637X-883-1-AB3C4D |
| 源URL | [http://ir.bao.ac.cn/handle/114a11/27865]  |
| 专题 | 中国科学院国家天文台 |
| 作者单位 | 1.Department of Astronomy and Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, People's Republic of China jfwang@xmu.edu.cn 2.Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 3.National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, People's Republic of China 4.College of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wang,Chen,Soria,Roberto,Wang,Junfeng. A Sparkler in the Fireworks Galaxy: Discovery of an Ultraluminous X-Ray Transient with a Strong Oxygen Line in NGC 6946[J]. The Astrophysical Journal,2019,883(1). |
| APA | Wang,Chen,Soria,Roberto,&Wang,Junfeng.(2019).A Sparkler in the Fireworks Galaxy: Discovery of an Ultraluminous X-Ray Transient with a Strong Oxygen Line in NGC 6946.The Astrophysical Journal,883(1). |
| MLA | Wang,Chen,et al."A Sparkler in the Fireworks Galaxy: Discovery of an Ultraluminous X-Ray Transient with a Strong Oxygen Line in NGC 6946".The Astrophysical Journal 883.1(2019). |
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