Recent Torque Reversal of 4U 1907+09
Astrophysics
2009-05-15 v2
Abstract
We present timing and spectral analysis of RXTE-PCA observations of the accretion powered pulsar 4U 1907+09 between June 2007 and August 2008. 4U 1907+09 had been in a spin-down episode with a spin-down rate of Hz s before 1999. From RXTE observations after March 2001, the source showed a % decrease in spin-down magnitude and INTEGRAL observations after March 2003 showed that source started to spin-up. We found that the source recently entered a new spin-down episode with a spin-down rate of Hz s. This spin-down rate is pretty close to the previous long term spin-down rate of the source measured before 1999. From the spectral analysis, we showed that Hydrogen column density varies with the orbital phase.
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@article{arxiv.0812.4189,
title = {Recent Torque Reversal of 4U 1907+09},
author = {S. C. Inam and S. Sahiner and A. Baykal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.4189},
year = {2009}
}
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Published in MNRAS