NuSTAR Observations of the Magnetar 1E 2259+586
- Creators
- Vogel, Julia K.
- Hascoët, Romain
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Kaspi, Victoria M.
- An, Hongjun
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Archibald, Robert
- Beloborodov, Andrei M.
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Boggs, Steven E.
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Christensen, Finn E.
- Craig, William W.
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Gotthelf, Eric V.
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Grefenstette, Brian W.
- Hailey, Charles J.
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Harrison, Fiona A.
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Kennea, Jamie A.
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Madsen, Kristin K.
- Pivovaroff, Michael J.
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Stern, Daniel
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Zhang, William W.
Abstract
We report on new broad band spectral and temporal observations of the magnetar 1E 2259+586, which is located in the supernova remnant CTB 109. Our data were obtained simultaneously with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and Swift, and cover the energy range from 0.5-79 keV. We present pulse profiles in various energy bands and compare them to previous RXTE results. The NuSTAR data show pulsations above 20 keV for the first time and we report evidence that one of the pulses in the double-peaked pulse profile shifts position with energy. The pulsed fraction of the magnetar is shown to increase strongly with energy. Our spectral analysis reveals that the soft X-ray spectrum is well characterized by an absorbed double blackbody or blackbody plus power-law model in agreement with previous reports. Our new hard X-ray data, however, suggest that an additional component, such as a power law, is needed to describe the NuSTAR and Swift spectrum. We also fit the data with the recently developed coronal outflow model by Beloborodov for hard X-ray emission from magnetars. The outflow from a ring on the magnetar surface is statistically preferred over outflow from a polar cap.
Additional Information
© 2014 The American Astronomical Society. Received 2014 February 24; Accepted 2014 May 19; Published 2014 June 17. Part of this work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344 with support from the LDRD program through grant 13-ERD-033. This work was supported under NASA Contract No. NNG08FD60C, and made use of data from the NuSTAR mission, a project led by the California Institute of Technology, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We thank the NuSTAR Operations, Software, and Calibration teams for support with the execution and analysis of these observations. This research has made use of the NuSTAR Data Analysis Software (NuSTARDAS) jointly developed by the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC, Italy) and the California Institute of Technology (USA). V.M.K. receives support from an NSERC Discovery Grant and Accelerator Supplement, from the Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique du Qu´ebec, an R. Howard Webster Foundation Fellowship from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Study, the Canada Research Chairs Program, and the Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics and Cosmology. A.M.B. is supported by the NASA ATP grant NNX 13AI34G. This work made use of data supplied by the UK Swift Science Data Centre at the University of Leicester. We also thank Dr. A. M. Archibald for helpful discussions.Attached Files
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- 47464
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20140724-114420483
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2014-07-24Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-10Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- NuSTAR, Space Radiation Laboratory
- Other Numbering System Name
- Space Radiation Laboratory
- Other Numbering System Identifier
- 2014-47