A Lack of 9 s Periodicity in the Follow-up NuSTAR Observation of LS 5039
The Astrophysical Journal(2023)
Abstract
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Array (NuSTAR) observed the gamma-ray binary LS 5039 for a second time in order to check for the presence of a periodic signal candidate found in the data from the previous NuSTAR observation. We do not detect the candidate signal in the vicinity of its previously reported frequency, assuming the same orbital ephemeris as in our previous paper. This implies that the previously reported periodic signal candidate was a noise fluctuation. We also perform a comparison of the lightcurves from the two NuSTAR observations and the joint spectral fitting. Our spectral analysis confirms the phase dependence found from a single NuSTAR observation at a higher significance level.
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Key words
High mass x-ray binary stars,X-ray observatories,X-ray point sources,X-ray astronomy,Magnetars
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