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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 3.54×1014-3.54\times10^{-14} Hz s1^{-1} before 1999. From RXTE observations after March 2001, the source showed a 60\sim 60% 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 3.59×1014-3.59 \times 10^{-14} Hz s1^{-1}. 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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