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Two giant outbursts of V 0332+53 observed with INTEGRAL

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2016-10-26 v1

Abstract

In July 2015, the high-mass X-ray binary V 0332+53 underwent a giant outburst, a decade after the previous one. This system hosts a strongly magnetized neutron star. During the 2004--2005 outburst, an anti-correlation between the centroid energy of its fundamental cyclotron resonance scattering features (CRSFs) and the X-ray luminosity was observed. The long (100\approx 100 d) and bright (Lx1038L_{\rm x} \approx 10^{38} erg s1^{-1}) 2015 outburst offered the opportunity to study during another outburst the unique properties of the fundamental CRSF and its dependence on the X-ray luminosity. The source was observed by the INTEGRAL satellite for 330\sim 330 ks. We exploit the spectral resolution at high energies of the SPectrometer on INTEGRAL (SPI) and the Joint European X-ray Monitors to characterize its spectral properties, focusing in particular on the CRSF-luminosity dependence. We complement the data of the 2015 outburst with those collected by SPI in 2004--2005 and left unpublished so far. We find a highly significant anti-correlation of the centroid energy of the fundamental CRSF and the 31003-100 keV luminosity of E10.095(8)L37E_1 \propto -0.095(8)L_{37} keV. This trend is observed for both outbursts. We confirm the correlation between the width of the fundamental CRSF and the X-ray luminosity previously found in the JEM-X and IBIS dataset of the 2004--2005 outburst. By exploiting the RXTE/ASM and Swift/BAT monitoring data we also report on the detection of a 34\sim 34 d modulation superimposed on the mean profiles and roughly consistent with the orbital period of the pulsar. We discuss possible interpretations of such variability.

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@article{arxiv.1607.03293,
  title  = {Two giant outbursts of V 0332+53 observed with INTEGRAL},
  author = {C. Ferrigno and L. Ducci and E. Bozzo and P. Kretschmar and M. Kühnel and C. Malacaria and K. Pottschmidt and A. Santangelo and V. Savchenko and J. Wilms},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.03293},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Accepted for publication on A&A