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MASTER OT J030227.28+191754.5: a dwarf nova at a massive oxygen-neon white-dwarf system ?

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2023-08-02 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We present timing and spectral analysis results of the {\it NICER} and {\it NuSTAR} observations of the dwarf nova MASTER OT J030227.28++191754.5 during the 2021--2022 outburst. The soft X-ray component was found to be dominated by blackbody radiation with a temperature of \sim30 eV and also showed prominent oxygen and neon emission lines. The blackbody luminosity exceeded 1034^{34} ergs s1^{-1}, which is consistent with theoretical predictions, and then decreased more than an order of magnitude in 3.5 days. The inferred abundances of oxygen and neon in the optically-thin coronal region surrounding the central white dwarf (WD) are several times higher than the respective solar values. Although inconclusive, the abundance enrichment may originate from the WD, indicating that it may be mainly composed of oxygen and neon. Assuming that the blackbody radiation comes from the belt-shaped boundary layer between the WD and the accretion disk, we estimated the WD radius to be (2.9±1.1)×108(2.9\pm1.1)\times10^{8} cm, which corresponds to the WD mass range of 1.15--1.34 MM_{\odot}. If the accretion continues for another \simGyr, the WD may experience an accretion-induced collapse into a neutron star and form a so-called black-widow pulsar system.

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@article{arxiv.2305.15994,
  title  = {MASTER OT J030227.28+191754.5: a dwarf nova at a massive oxygen-neon white-dwarf system ?},
  author = {Mariko Kimura and Kazumi Kashiyama and Toshikazu Shigeyama and Yusuke Tampo and Shinya Yamada and Teruaki Enoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.15994},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Accepted for publication in ApJ. 15 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables