Joint XMM-Newton and NuSTAR Observations of Type I X-ray Bursts from the Dipping Low-Mass X-ray Binary 4U 1323–62
Abstract In this study, we report partly simultaneous XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations of the bursting, dipping low mass X-ray binary, 4U 1323–62 obtained in 2024. 4U 1323–62 is one of the well-known persistent bursters, with bursts occurring roughly every three hours. It is also one of the few sources for which the orbital period is known, and shows dips in X-rays. In this paper, we report the detection of 12 unique bursts with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, 6 of them observed jointly. We detected two double burst events, one with the NuSTAR and another one observed with both missions. During our observations we detected 10 X-ray dips with a periodicity of 2.942 hours, in line with previous measurements. We also present the results of the time resolved X-ray spectral analysis of the bursts and show the limits on the cooling of the corona heated by the burst emission. We also found a 0.898 ± 0.017 Hz quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) during the non-bursting and non-dipping times confirming previous detections.
Authors
- Tuğba Boztepe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4729-1592)
- Ersin Göğüş (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5274-6790)
- D. R. Ballantyne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8128-6976)
- J. Speicher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9239-0373)
- Tolga Güver (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3531-9842)
- Brian Luff
- Diego Altamirano
Institutions
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- Sabancı Üniversitesi (TR)
- Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)
- Astronomy and Space (AU)
- University of Southampton (GB)
- Istanbul Commerce University (TR)
- Istanbul University (TR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Published
- 2026-09-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1727
- Primary Topic
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00